This CD, from baseball expert Peter Gammons, is the companion to the annual concert of the same name that takes place each January in Boston. Net proceeds benefit the Jimmy Fund for cancer research and care. Highlights include live performances by Pearl Jam, Dropkick Murphys, The Allman Brothers Band, American Hi-Fi, and Little Feat, plus tracks by Paul Westerberg, Susan Tedeschi, and MLB stars Scott Spiezio and Jack McDowell with their bands. Also included is an all-star version of Gary Glitter's "Rock 'n' Roll Pt. 1/Rock 'n' Roll Pt. 2" featuring Peter Wolf, Dicky Barrett, Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom, Spiezio, Gammons, and about half of the 2003 Boston Red Sox.
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Hot Stove, Cool Music, Vol. 1
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Hot Stove, Cool Music, Vol. 1
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ASIN: B00015HVNI Release Date: 2004-01-20 |
Tracks:
- Rock N' Roll Part 2 - Hot Stove All Stars
- Bu$hleaguer - Pearl Jam
- Your Summer Baby - Kay Hanley
- Outta My System - Paul Westerberg
- Rock N' Roll Part 1 - Hot Stove All Stars
- Dirty Glass, The - Dropkick Murphys/Kay Hanley
- Carol - Peter Gammons
- One, Two, Three - Bill Janovitz/Crown Victoria
- Hit That - The Gentlemen
- Desdemona - The Allman Brothers Band
- Open Yours - Stickfigure
- Rockin' In The Free World - Trauser
- Wrapped In The Arms Of Another - Susan Tedeschi
- Past Due - Sandfrog
- Hoy Hoy - Little Feat
- You - Flynn
- Hi-Fi Killer - American Hi-Fi
- Summertime Blues - Peter Gammons And The Penetrations (bonus track)
Album Description
This CD, from baseball expert Peter Gammons, is the companion to the annual concert of the same name that takes place each January in Boston. Net proceeds benefit the Jimmy Fund for cancer research and care. Highlights include live performances by Pearl Jam, Dropkick Murphys, The Allman Brothers Band, American Hi-Fi, and Little Feat, plus tracks by Paul Westerberg, Susan Tedeschi, and MLB stars Scott Spiezio and Jack McDowell with their bands. Also included is an all-star version of Gary Glitter's "Rock 'n' Roll Pt. 1/Rock 'n' Roll Pt. 2" featuring Peter Wolf, Dicky Barrett, Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom, Spiezio, Gammons, and about half of the 2003 Boston Red Sox.Customer Reviews:
all the cuts are great.......2006-08-21
Letýs see the Yankees pull off something this cool!.......2004-01-31
It's a great assemblage of talent, brought together to jam, primarily through a love of baseball. Pearl Jam is the "biggest name," but actually contributed the worst song, a rant of political ax-grinding that was out of place on a disc of classic covers, blues-bar jams, straight-ahead college rock and stadium ditties. In addition, it was the least compelling musically.
On a positive note, former Letters to Cleo frontwoman (and Josie vocalist) Kay Hanley offers up the best two songs, Your Summer Baby, and The Dirty Glass, in conjunction with Irish brawlers The Dropkick Murphys. Hanley is a criminally underknown artist, the prime rock chick out there today.
Other standouts include:
- Epstein's band, Trauser, covering the Neil Young classic. Trauser's female vocalist is very good, and put me mindful of Anneke from The Gathering or Cristina from Lacuna Coil, although musically the bands are far apart from these comparisons
- The slower but compelling song from Susan Tedeschi, who reminded me a lot of Norah Jones
-The Thin Lizzy-esque Hit That by The Gentlemen
- Past Due by Scott Spiezio's band Sandfrog, which would be at home on any modern rock radio station
- The funky Hoy Hoy by Little Feat
- The punky Hi-Fi Killer by American Hi-Fi
- And Rock and Roll Parts 1 and 2 by The Hot Stove All-Stars (including some Red Sox chanting the familiar "Hey!").
Other non-Sox ballers pitch in as well, and hearing them may be a revelation to casual fans of music or of baseball. This certainly is an interesting menagerie of professional and semi-professional bands covering several genres that fit together fairly well.
On a final note, as a vocalist Gammons makes a very good sportscaster. But his rockabilly-type songs are lots of fun. And that's the idea behind this whole album.
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