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Fri 11 Nov 2007Idaho idolIreland has long been clued in to the magic of Josh Ritter, but now the singer and his band are playing sold-out gigs across the US. Jim Carrollcaught up with them as the tour bus rolled into Ritter's home state of Idaho, and asked about their forthcoming Irish tourLeo Falk had a problem: His department store in downtown Boise was in the doldrums. It was the mid-1920s and potential customers were put off by the surrounding bawdy bars and brothels. Then Falk had a brainwave. He would change the vibe of the neighbourhood by building a theatre. People would come to see shows and do their shopping. He was a retail visionary, that Leo Falk.