2516 - VARIOUS ARTISTS - 100 Year Anniversary Of Fenway Park (2012)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
''100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF FENWAY PARK''
MAY 15 2012
43:52
1/Tessie/4:32/Kevin Millar
2/Let The Good Times Roll/3:49/Gary Cherone, Nuno Bettencourt, Daniel Bard
3/The Impossible Dream (The Quest)/4:34/Dicky Barrett, Rico Petrocelli
4/Dream On/4:24/Jon Butcher, Jarrod Saltalamacchia
5/Meet Me At Mary's Place/3:46/Peter Gammons, Seth Justman
6/Knights Of Bostonia/4:13/Ken Casey, Nora Parkington, Cory Pesaturo
7/Take Me Out To The Ball Game/1:25/Jerry Remy, Mike Mushok
8/Sweet Caroline/3:36/Mark Salling, Clay Buchholz, David Ortiz, Ryan Kalish, Darnell McDonald
9/2007/3:06/Kevin Youkilis, Jacoby Ellsbury, Dustin Pedroia
10/Dirty Water/3:14/Dick Dodd, Alfredo Aceves, Barry Goudreau
11/Fenway Park/2:59/Mark Lennon
12/Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu/4:07/Jim Lonborg, Mike O'Malley, Curt Schilling
Alfredo Aceves /Guitar
Kenny Aronoff /Drums
Daniel Bard /Guitar (Acoustic)
Dicky Barrett /Guest Artist, Vocals
Nuno Bettencourt /Guest Artist, Guitar, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Gregg Bissonette /Drums
Ashleigh Brown
Clay Buchholz /Guitar (Acoustic)
Jon Butcher /Guest Artist, Guitar, Vocals
Ken Casey /Guest Artist, Vocals
Sean Cheatum
Gary Cherone /Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Jeremy Cowham
Dick Dodd /Guest Artist, Vocals
Jacoby Ellsbury /Percussion
Casey Fang
Peter Gammons /Guest Artist, Vocals
Barry Goudreau /Guest Artist, Guitar
Charbel Hanna
Loren Harriet /Arranger, Keyboards, Producer, Strings
Jeff Horrigan
Jun-Ang Ni
Seth Justman /Guest Artist, Keyboards
Ryan Kalish /Vocals (Background)
Mark Lennon /Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Jim Lonborg
Nohely Mariano-Pinales
Darnell McDonald /Vocals (Background)
Aubriana Mency
Kevin Millar /Spoken Word, Vocals
Mike Mushok /Guest Artist, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Mike O'Malley /Guest Artist, Readings
David Ortiz /Spoken Word, Vocals (Background)
Nora Parkington /Guest Artist, Vocals (Background)
Dustin Pedroia
Cory Pesaturo /Accordion, Guest Artist
Rico Petrocelli /Percussion, Spoken Word
Tim Pierce /Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Red Sox Fans /Choir/Chorus, Vocals (Background)
Red Sox Scholars /Percussion, Vocals (Background)
Jerry Remy /Vocals
Matt Rollings /Piano
Blondin Saint-Jusme
Mark Salling /Guest Artist, Vocals
Jarrod Saltalamacchia /Guitar
Curt Schilling /Readings
Joe Silva /Roto Toms
Leland Sklar /Bass
Kevin Youkilis /Cowbell, Spoken Word
REVIEW
by Steve Leggett
To honor the centennial of Fenway Park in Boston, home to the Boston Red Sox, the house that Babe Ruth did not build, ABKCO Records released this curio in 2012, a collection of songs played frequently at Fenway during baseball games, many of which have connections to Boston rock bands. So that's the premise, and the result is interesting, but doubtful to change any New York Yankees or Detroit Tigers fans into being any fonder of the Red Sox or Fenway. It's a commemorative artifact that will please Boston fans, certainly, but most of the world hardly needs to hear Kevin Millar, Boston's first baseman from 2003 to 2005 (and author of the phrase "cowboy up"), sing. There are a couple of small secular bright spots here, though, like Nuno Bettencourt's (he was the singer and guitarist for Boston rock band Extreme) version of the Cars' "Let the Good Times Roll" and Dick Dodd's (former Disney Mouseketeer, drummer for the Bell-Airs, and then singer and drummer for the Standells) redo of the Standells' "Dirty Water." With a crack session band of Kenny Aronoff, Gregg Bissonette, Leland Sklar, Tim Pierce, and Matt Rollings, both of these tracks are professionally recorded and executed. Then there's baseball writer Peter Gammons singing Sam Cooke's "Meet Me at Mary's Place," which somehow manages to work although it has no right to. In the end, it's baseball fans, and in particular, Boston Red Sox baseball fans, who'll treasure this release. The rest of the league probably won't much care.
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