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The Legend of The Farmhands | |
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After toiling in the minors for more than a decade, The Farmhands are ready for the bigs. High Cheese (keyboards, second base), Fungo (guitars, catcher), and SacFly (drums, right field) make up the starting line-up for The Farmhands - the first band in history to record an epic double album (American League/National League) featuring one song for each of Major League Baseball's 30 teams.
Gregg LaGambina of Filter Magazine calls The Farmhands "as rock n' roll as baseball should be...as ridiculously important as baseball is." |
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Mike Kaufmann of Asthmatic Kitty writes that American League/National League is his "favorite epic double album featuring 1 song for each of Major League Baseball's 30 teams." And Nomar Garciaparra of the Chicago Cubs was reported to have quipped that The Farmhands "make me miss playing in a super-tight rock outfit." With American League/National League, The Farmhands have given baseball-loving music fans and rock n'roll baseballers what they probably didn't even know they were longing for. Somewhere in the vast middle where those 2 great American pastimes, Rock and Baseball, come together, stand The Farmhands: eager to play. Contact The Farmhands: Farmhands Headquarters |
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Ranging from old school rap ("Old Pirate's Just a Rastaman" - Pittsburgh) to indie rock
("Twin Killing" - Minnesota) to folk ("Red Sox Fever" - Boston) to acapella ("A is for Apple"
- Oakland) to spirited salsa ("Boggs en Caballo" - Tampa Bay), The
Farmhands cover more musical ground than Ozzie Smith going
behind the bag at short. With bittersweet SoCal punk ("Moral
Superiority" - San Francisco), nasty sex grooves ("Story of O" - Baltimore),
and plaintive cosmic abstractions ("Does Montreal Really Have a
Baseball Team?" - Washington), The Farmhands feature subject matter
deeper and more diverse than the 1998 Yankees' bullpen.