A full house rocked in the Easter long weekend, country style at the Slice, March 28 for the Rockabilly Round up featuring several Lethbridge musicians.
While I missed the Old Man River Band, I arrived in the middle of a solo acoustic set from Dusty Dee Litchfield. The Southern Alberta country musician has been keeping a pretty low profile, so it was great to hear him again. He sang several originals including a song about bear hunting and a whole lot of Johnny Cash, which was the common thread of all of the performers. Litchfied sang “I Walk the Line”
and several other Cash classics and wound down his set by turning Johnny B Good into a laid back country song.
A rejigged Hurtin’ including Ryan Dyck on pedal steel guitar and Scott Mezei on acoustic guitar in addition to the Pezderic family, were up next to play some original music and some country hits. Shael Pezderic introduced “self-explanatory” original song “Smoke and Drink.”
Considering it was a country night, it was apt that Floyd Sillito, who plays old style country music at the Lethbridge Public Library on the first Wednesday of every month, would play a couple songs.
He played a couple newer songs “Seven Spanish Angels,” and George Strait’s “ Dance With Me,” which had several couples two stepping.
The main event was Bent 8, Dino Caravaggio’s rockabilly band, which featured a new drummer and Pat Ackerman on bass.
They roared through a strong set of rockabilly covers including a couple Elvis Presley songs including “Baby Let’s Play House,” and Carl Perkins’ “Gone, Gone Gone,” plus several Johnny Cash song including “Get Rhythm” and “Try, Try, Try.” Which had much of the audience two stepping and swing dancing. They wound thing s down with rockabilly classic “Mystery Train.”
