I mentioned this album briefly before a few weeks ago and posted a track that caught my attention provided by the PR folks, I've now had the opportunity to spend some time with the full album and it's certainly made a good impression, here my favourite from the album. Tim Easton and the Freelan Barons - Nobody Plays Piano in Athens, Ga Tim Easton I've been a fan of for some time and I have most of his back catalogue in one format or another, on this album he's joined by the The Freelan [...]
If Leeroy Stagger spent the last year or so taking stock of his life and looking for the things that help him get up in the morning, you wonder if the search has been futile. Without question, Leeroy's sixth record - Little Victories - is one full of sadness. There are precious few moments of hope (the heartfelt "I Believe in Love"), and for the most part this is thirteen songs full of reflection as life tears slowly at the seams. These are more than broken hearts and failing dreams. Stagger questions if love even [...]
While I've never written about Leeroy Stagger here on ninebullets as a solo artist, I have written about E.S.P , his side project with Tim Easton and Evan Phillips ( Whipsaws ). Admittedly, I knew very little about Mr. Stagger before he sent me a copy of Little Victories and, sadly, the album sat in my computer room for many months more than it should have before I managed to give it a listen. Leeroy has been doing this music thing for the better part of a decade now. And by better part, [...]
I'm BACK! Did you miss me??? Between Rochester and Syracuse, NY. So, let's review the last month. I repatriated and drove a U-Haul from Toronto to Boston through a lake effect snow squall in upstate New York. I had no driving incidents until I got a half block from my new apartment on a side street in Cambridge, and side swiped some dude's car while he was sitting [...]
Have spent a bit of time reading and following up all the Best of's posted by like minded bloggers and music sites over the last few weeks and found a whole host of great stuff that simply passed me by in 2010. Sharon van Etten - Epic EP Lindsay Fuller - The Last Light I See Old 972s The Grand Theater Vol. One The Black Keys - Brothers [...]
hat das schon tradition? eine labelvorstellung am sonntag? blödsinn, wirklich im rhythmus liegen wir hier nicht. weder mit dieser noch mit jener rubrik. und ein sommerloch haben wir auch nicht. diktiert wird das tägliche klienicum-geschäft lediglich durch die aktuellste entdeckung. nun. boompa records . howdy! oder boompa productions sind in vancouver stationiert und haben einige bekannte künstler aufgelistet. aha- effekte sind vorprogrammiert. da viele releases in europa durch andere companies vertrieben werden, bleibt der ausgangspunkt, nämlich boompa häufig vernachlässigt auf der strecke. the salteens, matt sharp, leeroy stagger sind auf dem kanadischen label ebenso zuhause wie small sins, the [...]
Ever since last week when I saw Leeroy Stagger and his band do a bad-ass cover of Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," I have had that song stuck in my head. Photoblogger Steffen of TurnItUpOrTurnItOff.com posted some sweet photos of that show. Here's one of Stagger and guitarist Kevin Kane on stage at the Cadillac Lounge. Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money.mp3 Buy : Excitable Boy (1978, reissued 2007) [...]
There are pluses and minuses to big music festivals like NxNE . Plus: awesome bands and artists come to town. Minus: You have to get to the venue hours early and endure sweaty hipsters just to see these acts. The latter is one of reasons why I decided to skip a lot of the hyped artists that I wanted to see, and headed straight for the Cadillac Lounge on Friday, June 19. The Caddy is on West Queen West and if you blink you may miss it. Their clientele consists of mostly people in jeans, plaid, and [...]
Il devient de plus en plus dur de suivre le rythme des sorties. Citons 3 chouchous de ce blog récemment revenus aux affaires dans une telle discrétion que j'ai bien failli passer à côté d'eux!The Moore Brothers - Variety (MP3)Je garde un souvenir ému de Murdered By The Moore Brothers (2006) mais apparemment pas au point de guetter avidement la sortie du nouvel opus des frères Moore. Aptos est
The Canadian label Boompa Records has released the latest record from Leeroy Stagger . His name itself conjures up southern fried rock, Dukes of Hazzard, and gumbo don't you think? His music though is pretty straight ahead roots rock. But it's solid stuff. His song "Petrified World" off the new record Everything Is Real is filled with plenty of clever lines about life on the road as a traveling indie musician. Everything Is Real features guest musicians and singers like Tim Easton, Neal Casal, and Evan Phillips (The [...]
Ryan Adams canadien, fils spirituel de Steve Earle... Depression River nous arrive entouré d'un buzz apte à susciter la méfiance. Après écoute on aurait tort de faire la fine bouche car Leeroy Stagger tient la dragée haute à ces illustres aînés. Ce jeune Canadien de 24 ans fait preuve d'une facilité déconcertante que ce soit sur des hymnes bar-rock, des balades folk, ou des refrains catchy -
Calla / Strength In Numbers ( Beggars Banquet ) Calla have made a career of blending the desert plains twang of their Texas roots with the late night seediness of their current New York City home base and their latest album doesn't deviate much from that distinctive recipe. Aurelio Valle's whispered vocals still seethe with equal parts desire, desperation and narcolepsy overtop a band recreating the sound of a prize fight in slow motion. It's funny - every time I've listened to [...]
Calow : "Kiss the World" [mp3] from Kiss the World Calow : "Number One" [mp3] from Kiss the World Calow : "Ocean Space Sand" [mp3] from Live On Sonics at CJLO Leeroy Stagger : "Depression River" [mp3] from Depression River Leeroy Stagger : "I Break Hearts" [mp3] from Tales From the Back Porch Leeroy Stagger [...]
Six, or seven, weeks to go until the music starts at SXSW (March 14th), I won't be there, but I guarantee you that the buzz that'll build in the indie music community will be like a pot of strong coffee to me. Last year SXSW had a massive amount of music and the same will be true this year. You may already know that the festival for the past couple of years has hosted hundreds and hundreds of mp3s of bands that were showcaseds at Austin, although this year's showcase mp3s aren't online yet, last years are still [...]
The rural outskirts of British Columbia is a place where desperation lurks and the bars are full of broken-hearted dreamers wondering what the hell's happened to them. Raised here by his grandparents and his mechanic-father, it's no wonder that an air of domestic discord and dreams of white picket fences charge the song craft of one Leeroy Stagger. So begins Leeory Stagger's bio on Boompa's site and I must say it's certainly an intriguing description of an artist from my part of the world. Quinn has been driving [...]
Chicago 40 Buffalo 7 Who needs defense when you have Rex Grossman chucking the ball all over creation?! Urlacher and the boys could've taken the week off. This Bears machine is still on a one-way path to the Super Bowl and Rex to the MVP. The Whigs - Technology Indianapolis 14, Tennessee 13 Third game in a row that Peyton has had to save the Colts' asses. He led them down the field [...]
Canada now has it's own Ryan Adams, his name is Leeroy Stagger. If Adams had kept toeing the line he drew with his acclaimed outfit, Whiskeytown, and swallowed enough hard times to grow a Steve Earle throat, well, hell, then Stagger would be American, but he's not... he's ours. But better yet, his latest and third full-length, Depression River, is everyone's. Stagger delivers his songs in an
Leeroy Stagger has a name that's suited for blues stoked roots music. Whether or not his parents did it on purpose his name is a dead ringer for the old blues tragitional Stagger Lee. For an outlaw singer who can belt out the murderesque rockers with the best of em the name is perhaps fitting. Depression River is the name of the new record due out on Sept 19 on Boompa records. I've been listening to the whole thing and like the diversity of sounds to [...]
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