Jerry Leger & The Situation live at The Second Wedge

Fri Dec 06 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:30 pm UTC-05:00

The Second Wedge Brewing Co. | Uxbridge

The Second Wedge Brewing Company
Publisher/HostThe Second Wedge Brewing Company
Jerry Leger & The Situation live at The Second Wedge
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"Jerry Leger has that spark in him that all the great songwriters have. He's the real deal." — Ron Sexsmith
About this Event

19+. $15 advance (+HST/fee). $20 (+HST) at door. Doors 8 pm.

We're thrilled to welcome Jerry Leger back to the brewery, this time along with his full band!

From Jerry's bio:

As Toronto’s music scene has grown in stature on the world stage, singer/songwriter Jerry Leger has been making his own significant contributions. A favourite of Uncut Magazine and Rolling Stone Germany, Leger has also earned the praise of fellow artists Ron Sexsmith and Doug Paisley, while maintaining a long relationship with Cowboy Junkies as part of their Latent Recordings roster, with their songwriter/guitarist Michael Timmins serving as producer.

On his new album Donlands, Leger has taken a different approach, teaming up with legendary Canadian producer/engineer Mark Howard (Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Neil Young), whose trademark atmospheric sound adds an entirely new dimension to Leger’s approach. Named after the street in Toronto’s east end where it was recorded, in what once was the Donlands Theatre, Donlands presents Jerry Leger as he’s never been heard before.

“Not a lot of people make records like Mark Howard anymore,” Leger says. “After I got to tell him how much Tom Waits’s Real Gone meant to me, I fell right into the experience. Like all my albums, we recorded Donlands mostly live in the studio with my band The Situation [Dan Mock, Kyle Sullivan, Alan Zemaitis] in a circle—no headphones, just listening and existing, breathing as a whole. To me, it’s a record that lives in its own world. Since I was a little kid, I’ve loved how recordings like The Flamingos’ ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’ and ‘Pledging My Love’ by Johnny Ace sound so haunting. I knew Mark could get us that, with the right choice of material.”

Leger began by sending Howard 20 demos, and was pleasantly surprised when they basically agreed on which 10 should comprise the record. From there, he describes the process as treating each song like a blank canvas, building up arrangements with the help of engineer Aaron Goldstein, who also added pedal steel and guitar to several tracks. But overall, Leger says it all came down to the atmosphere Howard created. He says the experience felt almost like creating a film noir soundtrack, with something unknown always lurking in the shadows.

With Donlands, he has made an album that stands as one of the peak moments in an already towering body of work.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Second Wedge Brewing Co., 14 Victoria Street, Uxbridge, Canada

Tickets

CAD 19.56

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