song – The Leatherman's Loop

The Leatherman Song by Jeff Main

April 13, 2015February 20, 2014 by leathermansloop

At the Leatherman’s Loop in 2012 Jeff Main, the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation park superintendent, wrote “The Leatherman Song” in a burst of creativity and inspiration during the Loop event and performed it for the first time at the post-Loop gathering of volunteers that afternoon. Jeff’s lead guitar was backed by John Lawrence and the … Read more

Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam Recommends Leather Man Book

October 12, 2011November 20, 2009 by leathermansloop

Author and Friend of the Loop Dan DeLuca recently passed along this link to Pearl Jam’s website. Eddie Vedder recommended Dan’s book and posted a note about it on his blog. Eddie visited one of the Leathermans’s caves with a friend and was inspired to write a song about the Leatherman in 1998.

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