Lethbridge bluesman Daryll Düus released his long awaited new CD, Sept. 21 for an enthusiastic audience at the Slice.

 He began his second set with a bang by playing blues classic “Bring it on Home,” and followed that up with a solid set of big, booming, huge riffed blues rock including a lot of originals from the new CD “Oilite” and several blues standards.

 He had a hot band playing with him including Tyler Bird on drums, Taylor Ackerman supplying some superb harmonized guitar leads and the occasional lead vocal and new bassist Jon Critchly.

Düus howled and growled his lyrics, stepped out of the spotlight to let the band do their thing, and came back into the light for a solo or two.

A couple of the highlights from the new CD were  “Eyes In The Back of My Head,” and “Listen Up.”
“Love Somebody,” a staple of his usual set was another highlight.

Evan Eushenko joined them on stage to blow some harp on a couple of numbers.

they ended their second set on a blues rock note by covering David Wilcox’s “When Downtown Goes Uptown” and an old Jimmy Reed song.

 The third set was more straight ahead blues which had much of the audience on their feet.