Effectively Wild Episode 1789: One-Dan Band
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh concludes a short series of conversations with baseball content creators who work mainly in a medium other than writing or podcasting by talking to singer-songwriter Dan Bern about his origins as a baseball fan and musician, rooting for different teams at different times, his songwriting process, sneaking into Wrigley Field, composing his first baseball song, the tools of his trade, what makes a song a baseball song, the most fitting subjects for baseball songs, the best baseball songs by other artists, the pandemic’s impact on musicians, writing bespoke songs, appreciating multiple eras of baseball history, and more. Dan also performs his songs “Ballpark” (15:40), “The Year-By-Year Home Run Totals of Barry Bonds” (18:50), “Slowly Turn Around” (19:47), “Everything’s Better Than it Used to Be” (45:36), “This Side of the White Lines” (49:45), and “Seven Miles an Hour” (55:25).
Audio intro: Dan Bern, “When My Buckner Moment Comes”
Audio outro: Dan Bern, “Merkle”
Link to Dan’s website
Link to Dan’s song store
Link to Dan on Bandcamp
Link to Dan on Facebook
Link to Dan’s Doubleheader album on Spotify
Link to Dan’s Rivalry album on Spotify
Link to NYT piece on Doubleheader
Link to Dan’s 10,000 Crappy Songs podcast
Link to Dan’s discography
Link to Dan’s lyrics
Link to press coverage of Dan
Link to “Ballpark”
Link to “The Year-By-Year Home Run Totals of Barry Bonds”
Link to “Slowly Turn Around”
Link to “Everything’s Better Than it Used to Be”
Link to “This Side of the White Lines”
Link to “Seven Miles an Hour”
Link to “The Golden Voice of Vin Scully”
Link to EW episode about baseball music
Link to Ben on Get Back
Link to Neil Young’s “Old Black”
Link to Conan’s old-timey baseball video
Link to EW episode about old-timey baseball
Link to EW episode about discovering sports late
Link to Patreon trivia contest
Link to stream Stove League via Viki
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Now every day I roll your way So I get down all night, easy and free |
| 0:12.0 | Let it blow the inseries underneath our top of the drums |
| 0:18.0 | And I put my moment comes Then I'm coming home now |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1789, effectively wild a baseball podcast from Vangrass, presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:35.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer, my co-host Meg Rally of Vangrass is off this week, she'll be back next week |
| 0:41.0 | 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 |
| 0:50.0 | So not primarily writing or podcasting, a couple episodes ago I talked to baseball YouTuber Bailey Freeman of Foolish Baseball |
| 0:57.0 | Last time I talked to baseball painter Greg Crindler and this episode will conclude the trilogy |
| 1:02.0 | Maybe I'll do a sequel trilogy at some point because those always work out well |
| 1:06.0 | So we've covered video, we've covered painting, what else is there really? Well there are many more options actually |
| 1:11.0 | But today we'll be devoted to music |
| 1:13.0 | This episode will be a combination, conversation and concert |
| 1:17.0 | Let's get to our guest, whose name is Dan Bern |
| 1:20.0 | Dan is a singer-songwriter whose music sort of straddles folk and rock |
| 1:24.0 | He's released about 20 full length albums dating back to the mid-90s, along with numerous EPs and other projects |
| 1:31.0 | He's written music for plays and also for a few films including Walk Hard |
| 1:35.0 | 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 |
| 1:44.0 | So light down, curtains up, please lend your ears to Dan Bern, who joins me now |
| 1:49.0 | So the conceit of this series is that I am talking to creators who work mainly in a medium other than writing or podcasting |
| 1:56.0 | 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 |
| 2:04.0 | He is an author, he is a podcaster, but he's also a visual artist and most famously a musician |
| 2:11.0 | And he is here today to talk about his music and also about baseball, Dan, welcome to the show |
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