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Volume 2: High and Inside

{{Infobox album

| name = Volume 2: High and Inside

| type = studio

| artist = The Baseball Project

| cover = The Baseball Project - Volume 2 - High and Inside.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|2011|3|1}}

| recorded = Type Foundry Studio, Portland, Oregon, United States, 2010

| venue =

| studio =

| genre =

| length = {{Duration|m=46|s=22}}

| language = English

| label = Yep Roc

| producer = The Baseball Project with Adam Selzer

| prev_title = Homerun EP

| prev_year = 2009

| next_title = The Broadside Ballads

| next_year = 2011

}}

Volume 2: High and Inside is the second album from The Baseball Project, released by Yep Roc Records on March 1, 2011.

Critical reception

Volume 2 received generally favorable reviews from critics.[http://www.metacritic.com/music/baseball-project-vol-2-high-and-inside/the-baseball-project Volume 2: High and Inside]

{{Album ratings

|MC=74%

|rev1=AllMusic

|rev1score={{rating|4|5}}{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/baseball-project-vol-2-high-and-inside-mw0002098525 | title=Volume 2: High and Inside Review | work=AllMusic | access-date=25 October 2014 | author=Leggett, Steve}}

|rev2=Robert Christgau

|rev2score=A–{{cite web | url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=baseball | title=Consumer Guide: The Baseball Project | access-date=25 October 2014 | author=Christgau, Robert}}

|rev3=Paste

|rev3score=7.8/10{{cite web | url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/03/the-baseball-project-vol-2-high-and-inside.html | title=The Baseball Project: Vol. 2: High and Inside | work=Paste | date=4 March 2011 | access-date=25 October 2014 | author=Whitman, Andy}}

|rev4=Spin

|rev4score=7/10{{cite web | url=http://www.spin.com/reviews/baseball-project-volume-2-high-inside-yep-roc/ | title=The Baseball Project, 'Volume 2: High & Inside' (Yep Roc) | work=Spin | date=1 March 2011 | access-date=25 October 2014 | author=Menconi, David}}

}}

Track listing

  1. "1976" (Wynn/Buck) – 3:37
  2. "Panda and The Freak" (McCaughey) – 2:40
  3. "Fair Weather Fans" (Wynn/McCaughey/Pitmon) – 3:37
  4. "Don't Call Them Twinkies" (Wynn/Finn) – 4:26
  5. "Chin Music" (Wynn) – 3:47
  6. "Buckner's Bolero" (McCaughey) – 5:45
  7. "Tony (Boston's Chosen Son)" (Wynn) – 3:09
  8. "Ichiro Goes to the Moon" (McCaughey) – 2:06
  9. "The Straw that Stirs the Drink" (Wynn) – 4:00
  10. "Look Out Mom" (McCaughey) – 3:31
  11. "Pete Rose Way" (McCaughey) – 2:04
  12. "Twilight of My Career" (Wynn) – 3:32
  13. "Here Lies Carl Mays" (McCaughey) – 4:08

;iTunes Store bonus tracks

  2. "Dizzy Dean – 2:57
  3. "The Magic Mitt of Jason Byles" – 1:51

Personnel

;The Baseball Project

;Guests

  • Craig Finn – lead vocal (4)
  • Ben Gibbard – backing vocals (8)
  • Robert Lloyd – piano (5, 7, 9, 12), organ (1, 7, 9 ,12)
  • Steve Berlin – baritone sax (3, 9), farfisa organ (5)
  • Chris Funk – dobro (11), banjo, (11, 13), lap steel, 12-string, tenor guitar (13)
  • Paul Brainard – pedal steel (6, 12, 13), trumpet (6)
  • John Moen – backing vocals (1, 13)
  • Ira Kaplan – guitar (6)
  • Rodrigo D'Erasmo – violin (7)

;Production

Produced by The Baseball Project and Adam Selzer.

Recorded by Adam Selzer at Type Foundry, Portland OR.

Mixed by John Agnello at Headgear Studios, Brooklyn, NY

Additional recording by:

  • Scott McCaughey (The Record Room, Portland and Headgear, Brooklyn)
  • Kevin Jarvis (Sonic Boom Room, Venice CA)
  • and by Ben Gibbard, Chris Funk, Rodrigo D'Erasmo, and James McNew (various mystery locales)

Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound NYC

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [http://www.thebaseballproject.net/ Homepage]

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Category:2011 albums

Category:The Baseball Project albums

Category:Yep Roc Records albums