Ralph's World -
The Amazing Adventures of Kid Astro

The newest kid-friendly album from Ralph's World, now available in stores nationwide!

Press release about "Kid Astro!"

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Track Listing (click the "Realaudio" symbol to hear a streaming sound sample!):

Kid Astro
Just Like The Monkeys
Fee Fi Fo Fum
Down In The Glen
Mr. Rabbit
Dumptruck
We Are Ants
The Tea Tale
Miss Molly Crackerjack
Who's The Winner?
Sucking Cider From A Straw
Playground
Old Man Dan
Sun In My Eyes
Treehouse Orchestra

The Players:

Ralph Covert - Vocals and Acoustic Guitar, Piano on "Sun In My Eyes"
Pickles Piekarski - Bass Guitar
Matt Walker - Drums
Jon Nudzen - Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Mandolin, Dobro
Steve Gerlach - Electric Guitar
Ben Lewis - Piano, Organ, Clavichord
Matt Lewis - Trumpet on "Who's The Winner?"
Corky Siegel - Harmonica on "Old Man Dan"
Mars Williams - Saxophone on "Playground"
Deb Lader - Acoustic Guitar on "The Tea Tale"
Tommi Zender - Percussion
John Otto - Clarinet on "Miss Molly Crackerjack"
Michael Cole - Additional Keyboards on "Dumptruck"
Eric Blomstrom - Additional Percussion & Ant Box

Background Vocals by The Kids: Olivia Blomstrom, Jordan Einhorn, Sean Gies, Haley Goulding, Miranda Montgomery, Leah Rose Orleans, Elisa Meyer, Brendan Powers, Fiona Schenkelberg, Evan Silver, Haley Walker, Olivia Wood, and Zoe Zehren

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All tracks Produced by Jim Powers and Ralph Covert
Engineered and mixed by Josh 'Cartier' Cutsinger
Assistant engineers: Noble Hibbs, Paul Long and Mark Berlin
Recorded and Mixed at Gravity Studios, Chicago
Additional Kids recorded by Brad Wood, Los Angeles
"Sun In My Eyes" piano recorded at Waterdog Music, Chicago

Product Manager: Anthony Musiala

Mastered by Dan Stout at Colossal Mastering
Artwork - Giselle Potter
Graphic Design - Shane Swinnea

All songs written by Ralph Covert, published by Waterdog Music, (ASCAP) ©2004 except:

"The Tea Tale" written by Ralph Covert / Deb Lader, ©2001. Published by Waterdog Music (ASCAP) and Faintly Spoken Music (BMI)

"Mr. Rabbit," "Sucking Cider From A Straw" public domain

"Old Man Dan" written by Ralph Covert, Waterdog Music (ASCAP) ©1970 (The first song Ralph wrote, at age 8!)

Thanks to Anthony Musiala and Jim Powers at Minty Fresh, Erik Selz at Red Ryder Entertainment, and Hillel Frankel at the Entertainment Law Office. Special thanks to the many great retailers around the country who've been so supportive (Thanks, Drew!), and the folks who've worked hard to create opportunities for the future of Ralph's World music, including Gary Binkow, Karen Teicher, Susan Fiore, Tony Marks, and Mitch Okmin. Thanks to Chris and Steve in L.A., Leah and Gavin in San Francisco, Joanie and Robin in New York, Caroline and Jamie in Milwaukee.

This album is dedicated to the Kid Astro (and Samantha Lovely) inside all of us, doing our best to save the universe while getting to soccer practice on time...