Leeroy Stagger Releases New Album 3AM REVELATIONS + Shares New Single/Video
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Victoria-based alt-country musician Leeroy Stagger shares his new album 3 AM Revelations out now on all digital streaming platforms via Tonic Records. Listen here.
To celebrate the launch of his new album, Leeroy is also releasing the video for his 2nd single 'Count To Ten', which follows the release of lead single 'Watermelon Pink'. The video was filmed this summer on Hornby Island and although he is known for his prolific songwriting, ‘Count To Ten’ is not a Leeroy Stagger song.
“This is Dennis Ellsworth’s song,” says Leeroy. “He wrote it with my tone in mind and when I heard it, I knew I wanted to record it. His version is very different from what I did with it. I feel akin to Dennis’ music because it feels like it lives in my mind as well. I don’t know what this song is about to him, but for me, it’s a meditation in gratitude and an observation on how much beauty exists in the world when you shut off the noise.”
3 AM Revelations refers to the early morning hours when most of us are asleep, but if you’re Leeroy Stagger, you greet the coming dawn with words, music, and grace — and there could be no better title for his 13th full recording. For it’s in that sacred and moonlit window that brought forth his strongest, most passionate songwriting to date.
Says Leeroy: “Most of these songs were composed in the wee hours of a new day. The witching hours, you could call them. Where my mind is active and there’s a peace and spirit I embrace in the quiet of life.”
In these musical revelations—recorded in Stagger’s new Victoria home studio made of “beautiful rough-cut wood”—we hear gratitude, struggle, rebel rousing, balladry, compassion, and humour. We go to worlds as small as the back of lousy Dodge Dart, and worlds as vast as the Alberta Skies and as ethereal as human connection.
3 AM Revelations is the result of what Stagger calls his “third attempt” at making this record, meaning his listeners can look forward to two more collections in the can. And if 3 AM is three times the charm, as well as the bewitching hour in which to write beautiful music, Leeroy Stagger has tapped into something remarkably moving.
3 AM Revelations is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. For more information, please visit leeroystagger.com.
LEEROY STAGGER | 2024 CANADIAN TOUR DATES
Sept 13th - Fernie, BC - Knox on 2nd
Sept 14th - Rossland, BC - Between The Peaks
Sept 27th - Charlottetown, PEI - St Paul’s Anglican Church
Sept 28th - Woodstock, NB - Crossing Paths
Sept 29th - Fredericton, NB - Charlotte Street Arts Centre
Sept 30th - Halifax, NS - The Carleton (Halifax Urban Folk Festival)
Oct 4th - Halifax, NS - The Carleton (Halifax Urban Folk Festival)
Nov 28th - Port Alberni, BC - Char’s Landing
Nov 29th - Qualicum House, BC - Rotary House
Nov 30th - Tofino, BC - Clayoquot Sound Theatre