The theme of the Highway 3 Roots Revue’s last show of their tour was travel.
Leeroy Stagger, Dave McCann and John Wort Hannam took turns playing brand new songs as well as old favourites for a good sized crowd at the Slice, Dec. 18, which brought an intense 14 date, 4,000 km tour all over Alberta to a close.
All three noted how happy they were to be back home, before taking turns sharing new songs and contributing extra vocal harmonies and sometimes harp to each others songs.
They donated five dollars from each ticket sold to the Lethbridge Food Bank.
The first song each musician played had the theme of travelling.
Leeroy Stagger introduced a new song called “Dirty Windshield” about how “time seems to move so slow buy when you get home, the hair gets greyer and the kids get older. Dave McCann followed that up by playing an excellent new up beat, folk rock song called “Mexican Sparrow.”
John Wort Hannam answered that with a new song of his own.
Then the three delved back into their back catalogue with Stagger playing “Long Way Home and McCann playing “Leaving this Town” as Hannam played crowd favourite “ With the Grain.”
The quiescent crowd sat still, enraptured by the performances causing McCann to remark about how great it was for them to be “listening rather than partying.”
Stagger ended the first set by playing a highlight “ I Believe In Love” off his latest CD.
