An oldie, but goodie from 1997 when I was first introduced to the genius that was Jason Wahl and Mike Jorgenson during a harsh Minneapolis winter!

The opening track from our opening night from our first trip to Finland in 2000. The Tavastia Klubi wasn't as full as this picture suggests, but they sure knew how to dance and we didn't try to stop them!

Superhiway Tavastia Klubi

My recent performance of Blindly Moving Anyway on Minneapolis/Saint Paul radio program, True Brit! on KFAI

KFAI Blindly Moving Anyway

You know that feeling you get when things are out of your control and you're too stressed to see things clearly, and are out of touch with reality a little?

The new single, CLOCKWORK

© Rich, Boulger and Robinson 2022
Recorded by Eric Martin at Iron Bull Studio, Minnesota
Mixed by Eric Martin and the Rocket Soul Choir
Mastered by Greg Reierson at Rareform Mastering

Animation by Leslie Rich

Leslie Rich • Guitar, and vocals
Pete Boulger • Drums, percussion, vocals, and programming
Atom Robinson • Bass, vocals, and keyboards

Can your hear the song that I'm trying here to sing
Can You hear the words or are they just a blur in the din of everything
I always thought that it was easy to sing above the crowd
I sink beneath the waves just trying to be saved
For crying out loud
For crying out loud
For crying out loud

It's a clockwork ticking
Like a bomb just waiting to go off
It's a smile and a hope and a couple feet of rope
Could be rough
It's a life worth saving crying like a baby
What a sin
Holding on with both hands
Waiting for you to pull me in

I was lonely by the way in all the company I'd keep
All of it rushing could barely keep from running or even keep my feet
Well along came a girl with stars set in her face
Every time she'd smile her eyes would come alive
And my heart begin to race
Begin to race
Begin to race

It's a clockwork ticking
Like a bomb just waiting to go off
It's a smile and a hope and a couple feet of rope
Could be rough
It's a life worth saving crying like a baby
What a sin
Holding on with both hands
Waiting for you to pull me in

One little thing could just set it off
If I stumble or make a mistake
One little side slip could throw it all away
And nothing I can do can guarantee

It's a clockwork ticking
Like a bomb just waiting to go off
It's a smile and a hope and a couple feet of rope could be rough
It's a clockwork ticking
Like a bomb just waiting to go off
It's a smile and a hope and a couple feet of rope
Could be rough
Could be rough…..

CLOCKWORK

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. 

LOUD FOLK RECORDS

Qualified

Long Line Of Fools

Kind Of A Love Song

Kidder's Son

Blindly Moving Anyway

It's a laid back groove and reminds you that no matter what you're going through, there are people that have been there before and come out the other side. It might not look like it, but there's light on the other side and you ask, you'll find an army of supporters on your doorstep willing to lift you up.

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