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Pop is a song about my father and his father, my grandfather who I never had a chance to meet. “Pop” was the name they called my grandfather at home; his real name was Louis. My name, Leo, was given to me in tribute to Lou (both start with “L”).

The lyrics describe the feeling in their house, which was not a very happy place, how my father spent his childhood eagerly awaiting the chance to move to a bigger city and begin a life as a musician and intellectual, how his father commuted on the train every day to Chicago, was transformed into a jovial and creative person, and then crawled back again into his dark, quiet existence of his house in a small town every night. And ultimately the song explains how when I was born, my grandfather’s name was transferred to me and transformed from loss to hope.

It is a song about continuity, about memory, about desire, about family. I think it’s the most personal song I have ever written, and I release it as a gift to my father on his 76th birthday.

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Worlds apart but living in between the same four walls
passing in the halls and keeping desires guarded
In every heart there’s a little bit of us that doesn’t show
a little bit of us that doesn’t grow
left back where we started

In the room where they would gather
was a painting of a rather lonely clown looking down
And in the silence they created
the boy patiently waited to get out of town

On the train he remembered everybody’s name
told the jokes all the way to the final stop
Through the door he walked a thousand miles
strained to force a smile as they called out “Pop!”

In the room…

Time goes on even when we’re gone
I know he doesn’t see me from the darkness that’s beyond
But what would he have thought of the world he left behind
Would he understand, celebrate, would he be unkind?

They gave his name to a newborn boy
filled him full of joy and aimed him for the top
Over time as the picture fades the word is all that stayed
Pop

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from The Art Of Conversation, track released August 9, 2019
Leo Sidran – drums, guitar, piano, lead vocal
Orlando Le Fleming – acoustic bass
Ryan Keberle – trombones
Anya Marina – backing vocal

Mixed by John Fields
Mastered by Greg Reierson

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Leo Sidran Brooklyn, New York

“Vocally he suggests an amalgam of his father Ben with a hint of Donald Fagen. His fluid laidback style is reminiscent of Bob Dorough. Musically and lyrically his compositions are smart, sharp, and sparklingly original.”
— Jazz Times

I'm a multi instrumentalist musician, producer, arranger, composer, recording artist, and podcast host based in Brooklyn.

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