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How queer is it that the day before I was planning to post a couple of tracks from Leeroy Stagger, the ABC show Grey’s Anatomy plays his song Just in Case over the closing minutes of the show? This show has definitely gone up a notch in my interest. Not that it’s a bad show. It’s a much more interesting primetime soap than ER ever was, if only because it deals with emotions more significantly than your average young doctors in love melodrama. Including good independent music in the score is quite the bonus. Well, good onya Grey’s Anatomy. Go forth and become ABC’s Gilmore Girls. Please?

Anyhoo, back to Leeroy. My notes from last week, coincidentally enough, suggest that Just in Case would be a great theme song for a TV show, like if Ed was back on the air and still changing the opening theme each season. It’s a warm and welcoming song. A great opening for his most recent album Beautiful House. My wife and I were listening to the title track over the weekend while we ran errands. While walking around Target, Keleigh kept singing It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) and I could see how she had connected Beautiful House to the REM song. I particularly like the mistake at the end of the song. Leeroy’s harmonizing with himself singing the chorus This is our house, beautiful house when one of his voices accidentally begins to repeat the chorus before remembering that the song is over. By leaving the mistake in the recording, the song comes across as even more endearing. It’s a wink, like it’s a private joke that you and I get to share with Lee (which is what I imagine he’d let us call him). Thanks, Lee.

• Leeroy Stagger — Just in Case 
• Leeroy Stagger — Beautiful House

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