Brooks based roots band The Wine Soaked Preachers make an impression. So I was glad to see them back for the windy City Opry at the Slice, Wednesday, Nov. 14. The Windy City Opry usually draws a decent crowd and they had one,  this night. But, as usual, I missed most of  the show including and opening set from Edmonton’s Vissia.

 The  Wine Soaked Preachers, dressed in matching red cowboy shirts and black pants,   were in the middle of a solid cover of cowboy classic “Big Iron,” but soon added a few of their own songs.

 There was plenty of shuddering upright bass and sighing steel guitar and  a voice reminiscent of the D Rangers’ Jaxon Haldane.

 Frontman Jay B switched to electric guitar as he noted it was tough to get friends out on a weeknight and played a song they wrote about it called another night at the Bottom of the Bottle.”

“Lethbridge Provincial Jail Blues,” inspired by a conversation with a man in Brooks who worked there, was a highlight of the set.
They were called back for an encore of Corb Lund’s “Time To Switch To Whiskey.”