Lethbridge outlaw country band the Coal Creek Boys don’t play Lethbridge much anymore, so I had to catch at least one of their shows at Casino Lethbridge over the past weekend.
I caught the second set of the touring band’s June 5 show.
Instead of playing their usual hits, they were in a jamming kind of mood John Paul Smith played subtle and tasteful guitar playing on several new songs including a blues infused jam and a longer song about bootlegging in the Crowsnest Pass.
John Paul Smith, bassist Jesse Roads and drummer Sam Paul played a loose, yet tight set up up tempo country and folk music.
They didn’t have a lot of people there for their second set, but most of the people there were two stepping.
They ended their second set with a jam on the Steve Miller Band’s song “ The Joker” sung by Jesse Roads.