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    Kidder's Son EP. 2017 Loud Folk Record's five track CD EP

    The first U.S. release by Northern Irish native, Leslie Rich and his band, The Rocket Soul Choir.

    in 2015, Leslie re-formed the Rocket Soul Choir with long time friend, Jason Wahl (The Skullcranes, Sawbones) and Minneapolis stalwart, Pete Boulger (Grande Machine, Dander, Church Of Cash).

    The Kidder’s Son EP was pulled together from an expanding catalogue of Leslie’s songs since leaving the Celtic band, Hounds Of Finn in 2014. Returning to Leslie’s rock and roll roots, the tracks revolve around fearlessness (Blindly Moving Anyway), not being fooled twice (Kidder’s Son), day-old love (Long Line Of Fools), spirituality (Kind Of A Love Song) and rejection (Qualified). It’s a hopeful and forceful record.

    Broken apart, production is spacious, but all the more potent for it.

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    Kidder's Son EP - Loud Folk Records. 5 Track 12" EP on white vinyl.

    The first U.S. release by Northern Irish native, Leslie Rich and his band, The Rocket Soul Choir.

    in 2015, Leslie re-formed the Rocket Soul Choir with long time friend, Jason Wahl (The Skullcranes, Sawbones) and Minneapolis stalwart, Pete Boulger (Grande Machine, Dander, Church Of Cash).

    The Kidder’s Son EP was pulled together from an expanding catalogue of Leslie’s songs since leaving the Celtic band, Hounds Of Finn in 2014. Returning to Leslie’s rock and roll roots, the tracks revolve around fearlessness (Blindly Moving Anyway), not being fooled twice (Kidder’s Son), day-old love (Long Line Of Fools), spirituality (Kind Of A Love Song) and rejection (Qualified). It’s a hopeful and forceful record.

    Broken apart, production is spacious, but all the more potent for it.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Kidder's Son via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
Pick your reasons, if you dare to Come on speak your mind But speak the truth now, it's only fair to It's easy to define And it's barely holding on But it's blindly moving anyway It's hoping after hope Somewhere down at the end of your rope Now you may argue, that there's just no proof Other that what you can see My hope Is built Upon a rock And in the words I read And it's barely holding on And it's blindly moving anyway It's hoping after hope Somewhere down at the end of your rope And I have love Enough for you Should you stumble or should you fall And I barrel down In my clumsy way To help you see it all And it's barely holding on And it's blindly moving anyway It's hoping after hope Somewhere down at the end of your rope
2.
Kidder's Son 03:41
The weekend comes And I say, "Oh Lord, what have I done with the time?" What an awful waste of space This time I resign Myself to the will of whatever happens Although not to be that preconceived If I want it back, what I've always lacked What you stole from me If the demons come, with the morning sun I'll be waiting Because I can lie, I can cheat and steal And I have You can't kid a kidder, son It's all thrown up Up into the air to see where it falls and this time I don't care where we land And I hold my head Up high above the stormy water That you dare to, throw me into If I want it back, what I've always lacked What you stole from me If the demons come, with the morning sun I'll be waiting Because I can lie, I can cheat and steal And I have You can't kid a kidder, son Where have we been And I can't remember the path that we took But all of the signs seem so familiar If I want it back, what I've always lacked What you stole from me If the demons come, with the morning sun I'll be waiting If I want it back, what I've always lacked What you stole from me If the demons come, with the morning sun I'll be waiting I'll be waiting I'll be waiting You can't kid a kidder, son
3.
It's the latest Long line of Long line of fools Could be the Greatest Long line of fools This love makes waves for you This love makes waves for you It's the latest Long line of Long line of fools I've been walking on the pavement I've been walking on the moon I've been dancing on treetops I've been dancing like a fool It's a new love on a new day It's a new love in it's own way It's a new love on a new day It's a new love it's a new way Of letting go This is how I Feel right now And I can't see it changing Could be the Greatest Greatest thing to mention This love makes waves for you This love makes waves for you It's the latest Could be the greatest Long line of fools I've been walking on the pavement I've been walking on the moon I've been dancing on treetops I've been dancing like a fool It's a new love on a new day It's a new love in it's own way It's a new love on a new day It's a new love it's a new way Of letting go
4.
I don't know where we're going But I know that we're going I keep good company, so you keep good company If it doesn't leave a mark Well, it should leave a mark Because scars are the way, we share everything we say This is not a love song, but it's kind of a love song No need to wait to see if everything turns out right This is not a love song, but it's kind of a love song It's kind of a love song If you leave this to me Then I promise to try And if and when that I fall over and die You can put the price Upon my head Where I can rarely see, 'cos it's for them and not for me This is not a love song, but it's kind of a love song No need to wait to see if everything turns out right This is not a love song, but it's kind of a love song It's kind of a love song You treat me like a friend And I'll treat you like a friend Some of the time it's easy, sometimes not so easy You'll always be there, not to touch, but you'll be there 'Cos life is insane and you'll always be the same This is not a love song, but it's kind of a love song No need to wait to see if everything turns out right This is not a love song, but it's kind of a love song It's kind of a love song
5.
Qualified 03:43
This ain't the first, or the last about lovers And I'm not the one to help you learn 'Cos some of the best have passed me over The survivors have ben the hardest to verse I'm not qualified Your love and mine are two different things I need more than that Than a minute of passion thrown in from the wings A minute of passion A minute of passion Thrown in from the wings There's nothing so lost as when we don't have each other There's an empty space that you left behind I turn off the light and still hope to feel you Your comforting flesh, laying by my side But I'm not qualified Your love and mine are two different things I need more than that Than a minute of passion thrown in from the wings A minute of passion A minute of passion Thrown in from the wings Sometimes my arms grow weak from the holding On so tight to this fragile design Your mouth and mine are locked in communion But there's someone else at the front of my mind Someone else at the front of my mind Somebody else Somebody else But I'm not qualified Your love and mine are two different things I need more than that Than a minute of passion thrown in from the wings A minute of passion A minute of passion A minute of passion A minute of passion A minute of A minute of A minute of

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After 15 years of silence, the Rocket Soul Choir is back with a crisper, tighter set of tracks. This time the Rocket Soul Choir utilizes the arrangement skills of new drummer, Pete Boulger, and finally succumbs to stalwart bassist Jason Wahl's wishes to plug in an electric and turn it up. The result still ploughs the field of folk honesty, but also delivers a much needed injection of energy into Leslie's slightly off-kilter way of approaching love, hope, rejection and salvation. The music itself won't be rewriting the book of singer-songwriters gone electric, but the believability contained within is something all but a few in this genre consistently provide.

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released September 19, 2016

Guitars & Vocals - Leslie Rich
Bass & Vocals - Jason Wahl
Percussion & Drums - Pete Boulger
Key's on Kind Of A Love Song - Stephen Helvig
Recorded by Stephen Helvig & Michael Jorgensen at Droptone Studio
Mixed by Stephen Helvig
Mastered by Greg Reierson at Rareform Mastering

Loud Folk Records 2016

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Leslie Rich Minneapolis, Minnesota

Belfast born singer-songwriter, Leslie Rich grew up listening to a mix of punk, acoustic songwriters and traditional Celtic music. Inspired by artists like Luka Bloom and Throwing Muses, Leslie became a hard working solo performer in the bar scene. He founded the Rocket Soul Choir in 1994, mainly as an acoustic response to the heavy, guitar-driven, Irish bands cropping up at that time ... more

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