A while ago I caught a hit set from Calgary country band Jo Hikk at Average Joes, so i didn’t want  to miss them at the Lethbridge Casino, so I made a point of catching their last set, Aug. 17.

 You hear a couple of their songs on the radio, particularly “My Kinda Radio,” “Pimp My Tractor,” their cover of the Stampeders “Sweet City Woman” and “Scarecrow.
 I arrived as they were ending my favourite “Scarecrow” which they were playing to all of three people. They were getting a little frustrated and discouraged by it, especially by the one super-fan in audience who knew more of the bands songs than the band themselves and was demanding they play some of her favourite Jo Hikk songs.

It caused bassist/ vocalist Kelly Sitter to quip “We only play the ones we released to radio, we haven’t played some of these since 1995,”  and consequently got him to shout out the key to rest of the band to play what they could remember of some of them. So the set was pretty informal, like a jam in their basement rather than a concert.

 Apparently first two sets had good turnouts. They apparently played “Pimp My Tractor in the first two sets.
 But they played a couple originals including Scarecrow and a slower one “Steal my Anger,” part of their song “Caroline,” by request, plus all of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline ” and a laid back version of Bob Seger’s “Night Moves.”