CD Review: Baseball Songs Sports Heroes 2

Baseball Songs Sports Heroes 2 Assuming their audiences did not get enough in their first two albums, the song writing team of Joe Pickering Jr. and Phil Coley got together once again to put out yet another compilation of baseball related songs. In their 2006 album, Baseball Songs Sports Heroes 2, the duo teams with a few other musicians to bring to light some of baseball’s most talked about subjects. Since the album was released in 2006, there is not nearly as many songs related to how the Boston Red Sox had never won a World Series, but there are a good number of songs that relate to curses. One of the major downsides of this work is that some of the songs don’t really seem like songs, rather someone wrote down the biography of a person and then it was set to music without anyone making a real attempt to alter the words so that they worked in music instead of on paper. Another down turn is that while they seem to have the same sort of subjects repeated over and over again, the ...