Vancouver based country musician Petunia was an interesting contrast from the pop country show at Average Joes with Kira Isabella and Autumn Hill.
While he sometimes has a band, at the Slice, Nov. 4 he played as a laid back acoustic duo with guitarist Nathan M Godfrey who was as stellar as promised in the publicity material.
So the show was very stripped down allowing Petunia to showcase his many varied musical influences.
He is an unsung Canadian treasure so it was a shame to see so few people in the audience, though a few more trickled in by the end of his second set.
He yodelled and moaned like Bill Bourne and played a kazoo solo as he sang old murder ballads, original music, circus inspired music and jazz music and whatever else came into his head including new songs and songs from throughout his career.
Nathan M Godfrey showed off his fleet fingered picking and played a couple of delta blues numbers on his own.