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?Pieces Of The Past? is produced by Cork, Ireland?s Matt Manning. The collection also includes some musical and vocal contributions by Jackson Browne, Bruce Hornsby, Darryl Johnson and Steve Poltz. ?This is a roots album for me,? Tim says. ?I wanted to honor my Irish-Kentucky-Cherokee ancestors, who made up the very fiber of who I am. I have always carried a guitar and have written songs during my twenty years on the baseball circuit.? Tim played with The San Diego Padres from 1979 to 1989 as an infielder. He returned to The Padres as a coach in 1992 and has served as third base coach for the past four years. Tim has played and coached in two World Series. Tim Flannery has also released two previous albums on his Whalebone label. His last record, ?Secret World,? was nominated by The San Diego Music Awards for Adult Alternative Album Of The Year. Proceeds from sales of that record were spent to bring over 1,200 underprivileged children to Padres baseball games. ?Tim is like a two-sport star, with his music and baseball,? offered Garth Brooks, with whom Flannery has gigged and also played on the baseball diamond, ?and he can do it very well. There is a certain thing in music, when you hear a CD and you think the singer wrote all the cuts. Although I knew Mulenburg County (?Paradise? by John Prine) wasn?t his song, I?d have sworn that he wrote it. That shows you a great singer. He also recorded Guy Clark?s ?Immigrant Eyes,? and when I heard that, I cried.?