Baseball fans around the world annually wait for the sportscasters to announce “Pitchers and Catchers Report” … four words which denotes the beginning of the Baseball season. On this week’s show we’ll hear some great classic and contemporary songs about the national pastime from artists such as Matt Watroba, Chuck Brodsky, Antonio Andrade, Danielle Miraglia and, of course, Steve Goodman. It’s time to play ball … 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
Garrison Keillor / “Walt Whitman Quote” / Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns / Elektra Nonesuch
Jacqueline Schawb / “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” / Baseball: A film by Ken Burns /
              Elektra Nonesuch
Matt Watroba / “They Used to Play Baseball Here” / Shine Right Through the Dark /
              Yellow Room
George Winston / “Snow on the Ball Field” / Diamond Cuts: 7th Inning Stretch /
              Hungry for Music
Greg Brown / “Laughing River” / Dream Cafe / Red House

Bob Edwards / “The Outfield (a poem by Edward E. Nixon)” / Diamond Cuts: Grand Slam
              Vol. IV / Hungry for Music
Chuck Brodsky / “Letters in the Dirt” / Letters in the Dirt / Red House
Craig Bickhardt / “The Real Game” / Live at the Sellersville Theater / Stone Barn
Danielle Miraglia / “Heat of the Win” / Glory Junkies / Self Produced
Branford Marsalis & Bruce Hornsby / “The Star Spangled Banner” / Baseball: A Film by
              Ken Burns / Elektra Nonesuch

Humphrey Bogart / “Bogie on Baseball” / Baseball’s Greatest Hits Let’s Play II / Rhino
Antonio Andrade / “Something Happened” / Something Happened / Self Produced
John McCutcheon / “Baseball on the Block” / Sermon on the Mound / Appalsongs
Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun / “Three Strikes and You’re Out” / Diamond Cuts: Grand Slam
              Vol.IV / Hungry for Music
John Gorka / “Branching Out” / Before Beginning / Red House

Steve Goodman / “Go Cubs Go!” / Chicago Cubs Greatest Hits / Marguee
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