To celebrate the "The Walkabouts" 25th anniversary, Glitterhouse records will release a tribute album on September 25.
The Minus 5 contributed with the track "Nightbirds" from the album "Nighttown" released in 1997. Steve and Linda from the Baseball Project covered "Jack Candy" and The Bambi Molesters did "Sundowner".

The CD will be released as a double disc, with the second containing the original Walkabouts songs remastered.

"GOT NO CHAINS – The Songs Of The Walkabouts"
Glitterhouse Records / Indigo

01 Grand Theft Auto – Chris Cacavas
02 Cold Eye – Hugo Race
03 Got No Chains – Terry Lee Hale & The Seattle Clams
04 Acetylene – Walter Salas-Humara
05 This Rotten Tree – Willard Grant Conspiracy
06 Sundowner – The Bambi Molesters
07 Christmas Valley – Jon Langford
08 Fuck Your Fear – Chris Brokaw
09 Nightbirds – The Minus 5
10 Jack Candy – Steve Wynn & Linda Pitmon
11 Specimen Days – Savoy Grand
12 Wondertown – Whip
13 Nights Between Stations – Al DeLoner
14 Unholy Dreams – Gary Heffern & Beautiful People
15 The Light Will Stay On – Locas in Love

Just when you thought Scott hadn't released enough albums this year, the Minus 5 come up with another one. Tho this time you will not find it in your favorite record store, down the street or online for that matter. No you need to get out of your chair and go to one of the current Minus 5 / Baseball Project / Steve Wynn IV shows in your neighborhood. There they will have a 17 track cover CD for sale called "Butcher Covered." At this moment there isn't much info about it, as the CD comes without a tracklist or liner notes. but it seems to consist of tracks the Minus 5 did for various compilations over the years : Johnny Cash’s "I Still Miss Someone" Lynerd Skynrd’s "That Smell", John Lennon's "Power to the People", The Kinks "Get Back in Line" and "Wicked Annabella", Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers "Government Center" and the MC5’s "High School" among others and the previous unreleased Neil Young song "Revolution Blues".

We would like to hear what other tracks are on the album. You can discuss it in the forum.
we now have the entire tracklist figured out, look for it after the break, or not if you wanna be surprised when you buy the CD, thanks to countfeed.


Thanks to remring.com for the info

For all those who can't make it to any of the current Baseball Project / Minus 5 / Steve Wynn IV shows, there is always the internet.

A couple of bootlegs of the shows have been out on Dimeadozen.org, with very promising setlists:

2009-08-28 Lake Arrowhead Village Center Stage, Lake Arrowhead, CA (set 1)

2009-08-28 Lake Arrowhead Village Center Stage, Lake Arrowhead, CA (set 2)

2009-08-29 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA

2009-09-10, Turf Club, St. Paul, MN

2009-09-11, Marytr's, Chicago, IL

Some of these shows are also available at the Internet: Live Music Archive


Meanwhile keep checking Youtube as people keep posting interesting videos of the shows.

Scott McCaughey had to look on a map to make sure Pete Rose Way was still in Cincinnati.

He'd noticed it when he'd been to Riverfront Stadium, but he hadn't been to Great American Ball Park and didn't know if the name survived. It did, and gave him the perfect title for a song.

"It's a simple little song, I'd been to games at Riverfront, I remembered going down the street called Pete Rose Way," McCaughey (pronounced "McCoy" as in Hal). "It's nothing really heavy. It's just a little song, paying tribute to the way Pete Rose played. There's just a little bit of a tie-into the modern player and the things they could learn from him."

And it's that kind of story that led to the creation of The Baseball Project. The band featuring McCaughey, Peter Buck of R.E.M., Steve Wynn (of the Dream Syndicate and Steve Wynn and the Miracle Three) and Linda Pitmon, came together following R.E.M.'s induction to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame when McCaughey and Wynn started talking about a shared passion - baseball.

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Been awhile since i was able to update here, thanks to a broken computer, but all seems to be fixed for now.
First off, the contest runner up prizes should go out early next week, sorry for the delay and all who wanted to wear them to the show, i hope they get quickly to you.
And now to the point of business:
-The Baseball Project/Minus 5/ Steve Wynn IV tour is finally in full swing. One part of the tour is already finished, after that they took a week of and recorded volume two already. Best way to keep updated is to follow Steve Wynn's road diary, which is well written and makes you feel you where there. Another good stop is Scott McCaughey's Twitter page, not nearly as often updated as Steve's diary, but gives some different perspective.

The first show of the baseball project started in Spain more then a month ago, you can see some songs on youtube of the show with Mike Mills filling in for the absent Peter Buck.
Scott also did a radio interview in Spain which you can listen to here

To catch up with the recent happenings of the band here are some interesting previews/reviews, from now on we will try to keep the site more updated as new things come along.

Magnet Magazine SF review
KEXP Bumbershoot preview
Turf Club preview
World Café Live preview
Pitsburgh preview with Steve Wynn interview
Union County MusicFest preview with Scott Quotes
Bumbershoot review

-Early summer the Minus 5 did record a couple of songs for portland based station OPB, you can watch the songs here.

-The Young Fresh Fellows Tour in Spain is still more then a month away but the Spanish version of "I Don't Think It Is" is finally available from Munster RecordsMunster Records, you can get it on CD and exclusively on vinyl. To prepare themselves they will also do a show in Seattle on October the 10th at the Crocodile Cafe, opening for Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3.

Spain Tour(October 2009):
16 October - BILBAO, Cafe Antzokia
17 October - VITORIA, Helldorado
18 October - GIJON - Casino
22 October - VALENCIA, Loco Club
23 October - MURCIA, 12&MEDIO
24 October - MADRID, Sala El Sol


And that "Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3" show is the last of a five show tour on the west coast.

2 October - Austin City Limits festival, Austin, TX
4 October - Golden Gate Park 'Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival', San Francisco, CA
6 October - Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA
8 October - Mississipi Studios, Portland, OR
10 October - Crocodile Cafe, Seattle, WA


I am sure i am missing some other things, but this should do for now.