Last Friday night my buddy Buzzard and I went to the Leeroy Stagger concert at the Station On Jasper (formerly the Needle Vinyl Tavern). This was the first show I have seen at the venue since it has reopened under the new name, nothing has changed about the set up of the venue.
This would be the 14th time seeing Leeroy in concert. Opening the show was singer/songwriter Erin Kay whom makes Edmonton home. Erin played a solo set of music in the folk genre. She has a nice voice for her soft melody kind of music. I'd be interested in seeing her with her full band sometime. Overall she was pretty good.
Erin Kay at Station On Jasper.
Headliner was singer/songwriter Leeroy Stagger who is based in Lethbridge, although these days he and his band the Rebeltone Sounds have been living on the road, having been touring strong for well over a year now. Stagger sounded great and his band was super tight. I was really looking forward to this show as I haven't seen them play since July of last year.
They opened the show with the single "I Want It All" from his Love Versus album that came out in the spring of 2017. Actually the first four songs of the set ran in the same running order as on the album. Then it was time for a song called "Poison The Well" from his Dream It All Away album. Leeroy and his band even played four new songs and a couple of covers on this night. One of the new songs was called "Searchlight". Leeroy went on to mention that the summer of 2018 will always be remembered as the summer he fell in love with the Grateful Dead, they then went on to do a Dead song called "I Know You Rider" which sounded amazing that segued in to his song "Run Rabbit Run" which has a very Grateful Dead vibe top it.
Leeroy then brought out Erin Kay to do two new songs, "Caught In The Middle" and "Mother". Another new song the band did was called "Open Up Your Heart", all the new songs sounded great and am really looking forward to a new album. For the encore they did a Replacements song "I Can't Hardly Wait" that surprised me to see him do two covers. And for the closing song of the night they played "Dirty Windshields" from his Radiant Land album, that song is also the name of Leeroy's weekly radio show he does on Saturdays on CKUA. I was surprised that the place was only half full on a Friday night for a great artist like Leeroy Stagger, but then there was no advertising done for this show, no ads in the local weekly, or postering done. Word of mouth is great but you need to advertise too.
What an awesome night of music. Good times!!!
Leeroy Stagger at Station on Jasper.
Leeroy Stagger setlist for the night.
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