The trouble with showing up late, counting on the fact that shows start late is that when they start on time, you miss the whole thing.
Luckily I rushed downtown from my radio show on CKXU in time to catch the last couple of songs from Nova Scotia folk singer and banjo picker Old Man Luedecke at the Slice, Aug. 5.
He wound down his official set with some hot banjo picking backed by some equally hot mandolin playing from accompanying multi-instrumentalist Joel Hunt.
He picked up the guitar with “Early Day” from his brand new CD “ Domestic Eccentric.”
Of course, he was called back for an encore, which he began with a story about trying to make a living as a musician without writing a Nickelback-like hit
“I write songs nobody else would write. I’d like to write a smash hit that would ensure my family’s security like Nickelback, but I hate Nickelback,” he sighed before closing off the evening with an excellent version of “the A & W song” about the big A & W in Calgary from his Juno Award winning 2012 CD “Tender Is The Night.”
He had approximately 30 people in the audience, but deserved at least three times as many.
