Picture by Benjamin DeRosa.

And the remix.

[Featured Image Via: It’s a Long Season]

Over in Japan a certain Banterite did the laundry yesterday and is getting his family ready for Opening Day.

The Rangers welcome the Astros to the American League to kick-off the 2013 season.

[Photo Via: It’s a Long Season]

Before Opening Day tonight gives Easter. And more from Sweet Lou Lou (C’mon Honey, don’t front):

[Photo Via: Posie Gets Cozy]

Sweet Lou:

[Photo Credit: Uta Barth]

Justin Verlander and Buster Posey: Making Ducats.

Nasty.

Coming Soon…

I have almost no interest in it. Maybe it’ll be good, who knows?

[Photo Via: It’s a Long Season]

Byrd in Hand.

[Image Via: mOrtality]

Picture by Akihiko Miyoshi.

Picking up on yesterday’s Gram Parsons post, here is an interview with Emmy Lou Harris in the New York Times:

You blossomed as a songwriter relatively late.

Well, there were so many songs that were already written that I wanted to sing. Really, I don’t know why I avoided it. Sometimes I have to be backed into a corner. After “Wrecking Ball” I wanted to continue on that path, that sort of sound, but I felt that I had to bring something else to the table besides my voice. At about the same time Rodney and I were visiting Guy [Clark] and Susannah, and Guy looked me right in the eye and he said: “You need to write your next record. I don’t care if it takes you five years.” And I think it did.

Gram Parsons was your first mentor and you lost him at a tender age. Does he continue to influence you?

I started out being a fanatical lover of folk music. Country music, even though I was exposed to it, I just thought that I couldn’t be bothered with it. I could not hear the subtlety in it, I couldn’t hear the poetry in it. I was a Joan Baez wannabe. But Gram, he heard something in my voice. He thought I could sing country music. I started as a harmony singer, that was his way to kind of sneakily turn me onto this extraordinary body of music, and in singing country music I really found the place that my voice was supposed to be. It also made me appreciate the joys of working with a band, which meant a drummer, which was anathema to folk singers. I can’t imagine that I would have gotten to the place I am artistically or even vocally, if it hadn’t been for Gram.

Emma says goodbye to Johan.

[Photo Credit: N.Y. Daily News]

Get healthy, bitches.

Here’s the 2013 MLB preview over at SI.com. Nobody has the Red Sox making the playoffs and only Albert Chen has the Yanks making it.

Our pal Cliff salutes Tim McCarver.

Painting by Ha Huynh My.

Yum fun via Ghost in the Machine.

The freaks come out at night.

[Picture by Ed Vebell via This Isn’t Happiness]

Via Black Book, here’s on Eileen Myles on Gram Parsons.