I arrived during the last set from Lethbridge country group the Coal Creek Boys at the Lethbridge College Barn, Nov. 30 and stepped into a pretty surreal moment— watching a couple try to two-step to Neil Young’s “Ohio,” one of the darkest themed songs to come out of the early ’70s as it is about Ohio National Guard soldiers shooting students during the Kent Street massacre on May 4, 1970.
Not your typical two-stepping song. It’s no “Boot Scoot Boogie.”
The Boys and girl, Ali Stuart, sounded pretty tight in the echoey Barn, though most of their second set was dominated by covers including a decent version of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils’ “Homemade Wine.”
But they added a couple of my favourite originals including “You Ain’t Got To Like Everyone,” and “Lose The Bottle (Genie,) during which Dino Scavo, Devin Gergel, Johnpaul Smith and Ali Stuart all sang a verse.
The cheering crowd called them back for an encore.
