This week, we celebrate the true harbinger of Spring for me: the start of baseball season. We’ll hear old favorites from John McCutcheon, Steve Goodman and Chuck Brodsky … and newer tunes from Antonio Andrade, Larry Kaplan and even John Gorka. So get out your favorite dirty ball cap and enjoy a week of Baseball tunes … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways
George Rabbai / “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” / Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns /
              Elektra-Nonesuch
Norman & Nancy Blake / “The Star Spangled Banner” / Back Home in Sulfur Springs /
              Plectrafone
John McCutcheon / “Baseball on the Block” / Sermon on the Mound / Appalsongs
Claire Hamill / “Baseball Blues” / Baseballs’s Greatest Hits Let’s Play II / Rhino
John Gorka / “Branching Out” / Before Beginning / Red House-Blue Chalk

Antonio Andrade / “Something Happened” / Something Happened / Lifeshakes
Les Brown and his Orchestra / “Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio” / Baseball’s Greatest Hits / Rhino
Chuck Brodsky / “The Unnatural Shooting of Eddie Waitkus” / Diamond Cuts Vol. VIII / Hungry
              For Music
Brave Combo / “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” / Let’s Kiss-The 25th Anniversary Album /
              Self-Produced

Amy Madigan / “The Sporting News” / Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns / Elektra-Nonesuch
DeWolf Hopper / “Casey at the Bat” / Baseball’s Greatest Hits / Rhino
Larry Kaplan / “Baseball” / Furthermore / Hannah Lane
Peter, Paul & Mary / “Right Field” / No Easy Walk to Freedom / Gold Castle

Steve Goodman / “Go Cubs Go” / Chicago Cubs Greatest Hits / Marquee Alphabet City
Steve Goodman / “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request” / Baseball’s Greatest Hits / Rhino
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways