{"id":2069122,"date":"2025-10-04T18:48:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2069122"},"modified":"2025-10-04T18:48:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:48:37","slug":"new-brewers-album-fear-the-beer-blends-country-music-and-baseball-arts-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-brewers-album-fear-the-beer-blends-country-music-and-baseball-arts-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"New Brewers album \u2018Fear the Beer\u2019 blends country music and baseball | Arts &#038; Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<aside class=\"tncms-inline-relcontent tncms-inline-relcontent-info tncms-inline-alignment-left tncms-inline-width-one-third\">\n<h4>\u2018Fear the Beer: A Musical Salute to the Milwaukee Brewers\u2019<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">$10 digital\/$12 CD<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nategibson.bandcamp.com\/album\/fear-the-beer-a-musical-salute-to-the-milwaukee-brewers\">nategibson.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">All proceeds will go to the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wihumane.org\/\">Wisconsin Humane Society<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Nate Gibson fell in love with the Milwaukee Brewers through the sounds of the game \u2014 specifically the team\u2019s iconic play-by-play announcer, the late <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/captimes.com\/sports\/bob-uecker-drove-the-bus-for-the-brewers-and-baseball-once-literally\/article_bf400bfe-d5b6-11ef-b649-8b478f609c18.html\">Bob Uecker<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe best call guy in the country happen(ed) to be right here in Wisconsin,\u201d said Gibson, a Madison-based musician and audio-visual preservation archivist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison library system.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Brewers are set to start the postseason with the best record in baseball. Gibson, who co-hosts \u201cBack to the Country\u201d on WORT\/89.9FM, decided to commemorate the occasion by making a country album.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-horizontal  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-default tnt-inline-width-default\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-horizontal hover-expand letterbox-style-white\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-c104f607-4d65-4f66-8c0c-b1053f17e2ec\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6\"><br \/>\n                <span class=\"fas tnt-expand\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-c104f607-4d65-4f66-8c0c-b1053f17e2ec\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6\">\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n            <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1436\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1435\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/c\/10\/c104f607-4d65-4f66-8c0c-b1053f17e2ec\/68ded888744bb.image.jpg?resize=1396%2C1395\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/c\/10\/c104f607-4d65-4f66-8c0c-b1053f17e2ec\/68ded888744bb.image.jpg?resize=1396%2C1395\"\/><br \/>\n                        \n            <\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Nate Gibson was partially inspired to make his Brewers celebration album by the rallying songs made to cheer on the Brewers in the 1980s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n                                    <span itemprop=\"author\" class=\"tnt-byline\">Photo courtesy of Nate Gibson<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As a sport played before the ubiquity of television, baseball has a long history with sound, including music. Gibson\u2019s album, called \u201cFear the Beer: A Musical Salute to the Milwaukee Brewers,\u201d includes 12 songs that cover the different eras and cultural touchpoints of Brewers lore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">These include the sixth inning Famous Racing Sausages (\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nategibson.bandcamp.com\/album\/fear-the-beer-a-musical-salute-to-the-milwaukee-brewers\">The Sausage Race is On<\/a>\u201d) and the multiple seasons that country star and pro baseball player Charley Pride participated in spring training with the team (\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nategibson.bandcamp.com\/track\/the-jackie-robinson-of-country-music\">The Jackie Robinson of Country Music<\/a>\u201d).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The album, released on Sept. 26, is available on\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nategibson.bandcamp.com\/album\/fear-the-beer-a-musical-salute-to-the-milwaukee-brewers\">Bandcamp<\/a>. Digital copies are $10 and CDs are $12. All proceeds will go to the Wisconsin Humane Society, a tribute to Hank the Dog, the Brewers\u2019 unofficial mascot, who passed away in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Brewers will play their first postseason game on Oct. 4 at American Family Field. They\u2019ll play the Chicago Cubs \u2014 Gibson is excited for the two teams of the I-94 rivalry to face off in the first round of the postseason. \u201cI feel like in order to win it all, you&#8217;ve got to go through your rivals,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-horizontal  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-default tnt-inline-width-default\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-horizontal hover-expand letterbox-style-white\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6\"><br \/>\n                <span class=\"fas tnt-expand\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6\">\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n            <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"981\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"664\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/74\/d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\/68ded89ec03c8.image.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/74\/d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\/68ded89ec03c8.image.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Stardazers photo by Sharon Vanorny.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full white\" width=\"981\" height=\"664\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/74\/d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\/68ded89ec03c8.image.jpg?resize=150%2C102 150w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/74\/d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\/68ded89ec03c8.image.jpg?resize=200%2C135 200w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/74\/d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\/68ded89ec03c8.image.jpg?resize=225%2C152 225w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/74\/d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\/68ded89ec03c8.image.jpg?resize=300%2C203 300w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/74\/d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\/68ded89ec03c8.image.jpg?resize=400%2C271 400w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/74\/d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\/68ded89ec03c8.image.jpg?resize=540%2C366 540w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/74\/d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\/68ded89ec03c8.image.jpg?resize=640%2C433 640w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/74\/d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\/68ded89ec03c8.image.jpg?resize=750%2C508 750w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/74\/d74b832b-0001-4bb6-98f5-33b5be33db3f\/68ded89ec03c8.image.jpg 990w\"\/>\n            <\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Nate Gibson has recorded albums both solo and with bands, including Nate Gibson &amp; the Stardazers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n                                    <span itemprop=\"author\" class=\"tnt-byline\">SHARON VANORNY<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gibson has released albums solo and with his band, Nate Gibson and the Stardazers. For him, this new album is a joyful expression of a historic moment for the team. He finished the entire album in four weeks, eager to get it done before the postseason began.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI find joy in country music,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cI find joy in baseball, and I find joy in projects \u2014 completing an idea, envisioning something, and seeing it through.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">\u2018King Vaughn\u2019s bat and Johnny\u2019s ghost\u2019<\/h3>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-vertical  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-left tnt-inline-width-one-third\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-vertical hover-expand letterbox-style-white\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-673a6a50-e99a-46d7-b59b-19d69d35d35b\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6-photo-modal\" 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class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Nate Gibson called recording his Brewers country album a\u00a0\u201cbedroom studio project.\u201d He recorded vocals in his niece&#8217;s bedroom and the album was mixed by his nephew, Ethan Gibson of the metal band FAHR.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n                                    <span itemprop=\"author\" class=\"tnt-byline\">Photo courtesy of Nate Gibson<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to Gibson, country music and baseball go hand in hand. He links the growth of country radio programs like the Grand Ole Opry to the golden age of baseball, roughly from about the 1920s to the 1950s. When people weren\u2019t surfing the radio waves for the broadcast of the New York Yankees vs. the Brooklyn Dodgers World Series, they might be listening to songs from stars like Johnny Cash or The Louvin Brothers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The current iteration of the Brewers arrived in Milwaukee in 1970, following the Milwaukee Braves\u2019 departure in 1965 (now in Atlanta). That\u2019s when Charley Pride began hanging out with the team, thanks to new manager Dave Bristol.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDave was friends with Charley Pride, and so they invited him to spring training,\u201d Gibson said. Pride was already a country music star \u2014 the first Black singer to perform at the Grand Ole Opry \u2014 but never officially played for the team.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gibson said he saw photos of Pride suited up for the Brewers, which piqued his interest. A trading card-style photo of Pride is included in the album art.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-vertical  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-default tnt-inline-width-default\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-vertical hover-expand letterbox-style-white\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6\"><br \/>\n                <span class=\"fas tnt-expand\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6\">\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n            <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1153\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1796\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"img524.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full white\" width=\"1153\" height=\"1796\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg?resize=150%2C234 150w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg?resize=200%2C312 200w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg?resize=225%2C350 225w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg?resize=300%2C467 300w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg?resize=400%2C623 400w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg?resize=540%2C841 540w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg?resize=640%2C997 640w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg?resize=750%2C1168 750w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg?resize=990%2C1542 990w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg?resize=1035%2C1612 1035w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/e3\/ae38678d-6d74-44cb-8448-b479006e01c2\/68ded891b63c5.image.jpg 1200w\"\/>\n            <\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Country music star Charley Pride suited up for \u2014 but never officially played with \u2014 the Brewers in the 1970s. Nate Gibson saw this as one of the many parallels between the team and country music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n                                    <span itemprop=\"author\" class=\"tnt-byline\">Photo courtesy of Nate Gibson<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The connection between the Brewers and country music continues to this day. The Brewers\u2019 triple-A minor league affiliate is the Nashville Sounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI started to posit that the reason (the players) are so successful is they had to come through Nashville amidst all these country music bars,\u201d Gibson said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Brewers host a country music night, and while the team\u2019s unofficial mascot, Hank the Dog, was named after Hank Aaron, Gibson said country music is \u201cfilled with famous Hanks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He singled out players whose walk-up songs are country tunes, like pitcher Jared Koenig (Cody Jinks\u2019 \u201cLoud and Heavy\u201d) and first baseman Andrew Vaughn (Johnny Cash\u2019s \u201cGod\u2019s Gonna Cut You Down\u201d).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One tune is called \u201cKing Vaughn\u2019s Crown and Johnny\u2019s Ghost.\u201d Gibson sings that since Vaughn was traded from the White Sox in June, \u201cwe\u2019ve won the most\/thanks to King Vaughn\u2019s bat and Johnny\u2019s ghost.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">What rhymes with Brewers?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Before discovering these parallels, Gibson initially set out to write only one or two songs. With a bit of digging (and some tiny seeds of doubt from friends that there was no way he could make an entire album of songs), he had a 60- to 70-page document with notes, including \u201c70 words that rhyme with brewers \u2026 I did not realize there were that many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The album\u2019s first song, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nategibson.bandcamp.com\/track\/fear-the-beer\">Fear the Beer<\/a>,\u201d is composed solely of lyrics that rhyme with \u201cBrewers\u201d (with words like baby Bluers, accruers, new tattooer and pooper scoopers). 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<\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Nate Gibson recorded\u00a0\u201cFear the Beer: A Musical Salute to the Milwaukee Brewers\u201d in four weeks, just in time for the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n                                    <span itemprop=\"author\" class=\"tnt-byline\">Courtesy of Nate Gibson<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gibson called the album a \u201cbedroom studio project.\u201d He recorded all the vocals in his niece\u2019s bedroom as his nephew, musician Ethan Gibson of the Nebraska-based metal band FAHR, helped record and mix the album.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He had friends contribute their musical talents, like Randy Finley on the fiddle and Art Stevenson on the harmonica, with whom Gibson co-hosts \u201cBack to the Country.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gibson was a Cardinals fan \u201cuntil April 1 of 1987, when they traded my favorite player, Andy Van Syke,\u201d and lived in Boston for 12 years, adopting the Red Sox. Now, he finds the Brewers easy to root for. They\u2019re perennial underdogs, playing in the smallest MLB market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-vertical  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-left tnt-inline-width-one-third\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-vertical hover-expand letterbox-style-white\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6\"><br \/>\n                <span class=\"fas tnt-expand\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-035b5232-1714-4c45-ae32-aa2b542f87f6\">\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n            <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1033\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"2005\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/71\/5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\/68ded88781be8.image.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/71\/5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\/68ded88781be8.image.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Andrew Harrison playing guitar on Fear the Bear album.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full white\" width=\"1033\" height=\"2005\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/71\/5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\/68ded88781be8.image.jpg?resize=150%2C291 150w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/71\/5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\/68ded88781be8.image.jpg?resize=200%2C388 200w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/71\/5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\/68ded88781be8.image.jpg?resize=225%2C437 225w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/71\/5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\/68ded88781be8.image.jpg?resize=300%2C582 300w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/71\/5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\/68ded88781be8.image.jpg?resize=400%2C776 400w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/71\/5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\/68ded88781be8.image.jpg?resize=540%2C1048 540w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/71\/5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\/68ded88781be8.image.jpg?resize=640%2C1242 640w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/71\/5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\/68ded88781be8.image.jpg?resize=750%2C1456 750w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/71\/5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\/68ded88781be8.image.jpg?resize=990%2C1922 990w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/71\/5718ceea-aff1-4b33-b4fe-43970d22c6d5\/68ded88781be8.image.jpg 1035w\"\/>\n            <\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Although &#8220;Fear the Beer&#8221; is a solo album, Nate Gibson asked friends to contribute, like Andrew Harrison, who played guitar for the Brewers record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n                                    <span itemprop=\"author\" class=\"tnt-byline\">Photo courtesy of Nate Gibson<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to the song \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nategibson.bandcamp.com\/track\/down-on-the-farm-in-nashville\">Down on the Farm in Nashville<\/a>,\u201d the team found success \u201cwith a payroll less than a third of the Mets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">His album builds on a history of songwriting and joy that comes with having a winning team. Part of the collection of UW-Madison\u2019s Mills Music Library is a dozen or so records and 45s of Brewers\u2019 jingles and sing-along songs, primarily recorded in the 1980s (the Brewers went to the World Series in 1982, but have never won).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Most, Gibson said, are cheers with lines like, \u201cWe\u2019re going all the way. We\u2019re gonna win it all.\u201d He wanted his album to be less of a rallying cry and more of a celebration of the Brewers\u2019 most successful regular season of all time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis is a historic, epic season that we should all be celebrating, and it\u2019s been fun. So let\u2019s have a soundtrack to the playoffs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"tncms-inline-relcontent tncms-inline-relcontent-info\">\n<h4>Got a news tip?<\/h4>\n<p>The Cap Times welcomes tips from readers to help us inform our community. 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