Punch Brothers make the playoffs
The Punch Brothers have advanced to the final three in the ESPN’s Take Me Out To The Ballgame – Battle of the Bands. The Brothers are now competing against Gretchen Wilson and Ozomatli for the top spot.
You can still vote for their bluegrass version of the song in this final round (even if you voted previously). The winner will be announced during the July 13th episode of Baseball Tonight.
The video of their performance is available on that page, but I’ve embedded it below as well.
Punch Brothers front man, Chris Thile, will be online this afternoon with the ESPN SportsNation folks for a live chat at 12:30 PM EST. You can submit questions ahead of time , or join the chat live during your lunch break today.
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Well... the vote is in and Punch Brothers were defeated in the ESPN Baseball Tonight band competition by country singer Gretchen Wilson.
The contest was in honor of the 100th anniversary of the venerable Take Me Out To The Ballgame, written by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilze in 1908. Several popular...
Mandolin master Chris Thile has had a long love affair with America's favorite pastime. Thile's great-great-grandfather is Baseball Hall of Famer, Sam Thompson. Thile himself, at one time, hoped to be a ball player. His first solo CD, Leading Off, featured a baseball diamond as part of the graphic content...
While we're on this bluegrass/baseball theme, here is the video of Punch Brothers performing Take Me Out To The Ballgame on ESPN's Baseball Tonight show on June 18 which Brance posted about on Tuesday.
Their take on the song is part of an ESPN effort to mark the 100th anniversary of the song's debut....
We posted last week that Punch Brothers would be appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 2/29.
The video from that program will be available online for a few more days. The Tonight Show keeps each full show up for web viewing for a week after it airs, so until Saturday, you can catch this one...
Punch Brothers fans can check out three live cuts from the guys posted at Daytrotter.com.
There are live versions of Punch Bowl and the first movement of The Blind Leaving The Blind, both tracks from the band's current CD, Punch. They also cut a version of Wilco's Poor Places which they have been...
Punch, the debut CD from Chris Thile's Punch Brothers, is among the nominees in the Best CDs of 2008 listener poll at NPR.com. The band is encouraging their many fans and friends to register at the NPR Community site, and cast a vote for them in the poll.
Punch is certainly high on my list of 2008...
Tonight (2/29), Punch Brothers will be the musical guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. No doubt but that they will perform something from their just-released Nonesuch CD, Punch.
The show airs at 11:30 p.m. (ET) on NBC, and the musical segment is usually the very last before the show concludes...
Video from a Punch Brothers Concert for Folk Alley has been posted online. The show was recorded on April 2 in Kent, OH and both sets of music can be viewed at FolkAlley.com
The concert contains a complete performance of The Blind Leaving The Blind, split between the two sets. This is Chris Thile's...
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