Now every day I roll your way So I get down all night, easy and free

Let it blow the inseries underneath our top of the drums

And I put my moment comes Then I'm coming home now

Hello and welcome to episode 1789, effectively wild a baseball podcast from Vangrass, presented by our Patreon supporters

I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer, my co-host Meg Rally of Vangrass is off this week, she'll be back next week

And so in her absence, I've been doing a podcast mini-series of conversations with people who make cool baseball stuff that's different from what Meg and I do

So not primarily writing or podcasting, a couple episodes ago I talked to baseball YouTuber Bailey Freeman of Foolish Baseball

Last time I talked to baseball painter Greg Crindler and this episode will conclude the trilogy

Maybe I'll do a sequel trilogy at some point because those always work out well

So we've covered video, we've covered painting, what else is there really? Well there are many more options actually

But today we'll be devoted to music

This episode will be a combination, conversation and concert

Let's get to our guest, whose name is Dan Bern

Dan is a singer-songwriter whose music sort of straddles folk and rock

He's released about 20 full length albums dating back to the mid-90s, along with numerous EPs and other projects

He's written music for plays and also for a few films including Walk Hard

He's also a baseball fan and he's released a couple of collections of baseball songs including Double Header, a double album and rivalry, which came out last year

So light down, curtains up, please lend your ears to Dan Bern, who joins me now

So the conceit of this series is that I am talking to creators who work mainly in a medium other than writing or podcasting

But my guest today works in all the media, I think I'm not sure there is a medium that Dan Bern hasn't hit on at some point

He is an author, he is a podcaster, but he's also a visual artist and most famously a musician

And he is here today to talk about his music and also about baseball, Dan, welcome to the show

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