Discography

“Lessons from the Third End” is a compilation of two prior

releases, Lessons Learned (1998) and The Third End (2000).

A collection of 4, 8, and 16 track recordings.

Players

John Petrucci – Lead Guitar on Breakdown and Tearing Yourself in Two

George Harris – Lead Guitar on Broken Heart

Ed Woltil – Guitars and Background Vocals on One of Those Days

Jeff Bowers - Drums, Background Vocals on One of Those Days

Rob Kosinski - Keyboards on Breakdown, Seen It All, Tearing Yourself in Two, End This Way

Mike Tigos - Drums on Breakdown, Teraing Yourself in Two, Broken Heart, End This Way

Chaz Dtkes - Bass on Breakdown, Teraing Yourself in Two, End This Way

Keith Leedham - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Percussion

"...a musical landscape painted with colors of his rock roots and some of modern country’s more introspective moments.”

Players

Ed Woltil – Guitars on Dog Tags & Tears, 20 Years

Rob Kosinski - Piano, Guitars, Bass on A Constant in You

Keith Leedham - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Percussion

“The Fall of Rome” is a five song concept EP that follows the thoughts and actions of John, a radio talk show host and citizen of a society at a crossroads. It chronicles John’s fight against a prevailing tide of collectivism championed by The New Authority. John tries to explain to his listeners the dangers of what The New Authority is doing through historical examples.

Players

Rob Kosinski - Drums, Guitars, Piano

Stephan Molynuex - Spoken part of John

Keith Leedham - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keys, Percussion, Sound Effects

1/23/2017 - Today would have been my Dad’s 81st Birthday. He passed away some years ago. It took me a while to put things together in my head enough to write this song. This song has been a work in progress for far too long, but I can not think of a better day to release it than on his birthday.

I was unbelievably blessed to have Phil Keaggy (philkeaggy.com) agree to play guitar on this track. Along with my usual partner in musical crime Rob Kosinski (robkmusic.com) who contributed drums, bass, and some keys. We recorded and re-recorded this song a number of times trying to get it right. It is finally complete and ready to go out into the world!

I hope it’s a fitting tribute to my Dad, George Leedham.

Players

Rob Kosinski - Drums, Bass, Keys

Phil Keaggy - Guitar

Keith Leedham - Vocals, Guitars, Keys

Mixed and Mastered by Rob Kosinski

The past few years have been tough. More than a few of my musical heroes passed away, many of them far too soon. I decided I wanted to try and write a tribute to these artists that helped influence me. They are in large part why started down this musical road in the first place.

The first thing I did was make a list of my musical heroes who have died since John Lennon was murdered. I then listed a song, or a line from a song that meant something to me by each of those artists. I then began stringing those song titles together as a single lyric as best I could. The only rule I gave myself was the word “Imagine” (a song by John Lennon) would be the first word of the song. I was not able to include every artist that made my original list, and unfortunately more artists had passed away after I had completed the lyric. I wanted to find some way to include two of those artists, Prince and Tom Petty. So if you listen carefully, you will hear tributes to these two giants in some of the production elements. Another huge influence on me was George Martin, the genius Producer of The Beatles. The way some parts were recorded and many of the production elements are my tribute to Sir George.

The cover art is also a tip of the hat of sorts. The colors and font used are reminesent of Elvis Presley's first album, and also "London Calling" by The Clash, which was also a bit of a tribute to Elvis. The jukebox cards have most of the songs and artists that are included in the lyrics. I did some reseach to make sure the "B-sides" were correct for most of the songs that were released as singles. Some artistic license was taken in some cases. You can click on the image above to see a larger, more detailed version of the cover art. Many thanks to Rob Kosinski for his help with the design and layout of the cover art as well as the mixing and mastering of "Heroes and Ghosts"

Head over to the "Lyrics" page to see the Lyrics of "Heroes and Ghosts".

The following is a list of the artists who songs are included in the lyrics of “Heroes and Ghosts” in no particular order: