New Brunswick born Calgary based country singer Julian Austin entertained a good sized crowd at Casino Lethbridge, June 6 with some original songs and a lot of countrified classic rock hits.
I arrived in the middle of “If Houston Don’t Want You,” from his CD “One To One,” for which he filmed a video on top of Lethbridge’s old firehall a few summers back.
He laughed “I’ll do the other song now,” as he dedicated his countrified version of Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls” to all of the ladies in the room, most of whom got up and danced.
He was impressed by this and told them “instead of playing songs nobody knows, I’m going to play some songs everybody know.”
He followed it up with a whimsical cover of “Cover of the Rolling Stone,” changing the verse about teenage groupies into a verse about cougars and had the audience singing along with it.
He followed up by having his band play a few bars of the Eagles’ Desperado,” which segued into “Take it Easy.”
He ended his show with an original song he wrote “He’s Got What It Takes” in New Brunswick while trying to get a record deal, which was met with great response, then introduced his band, and himself as Jason McCoy.
“Unless you kind if liked me, then you can call me Julian or Jules, that’s what my friends call me,” he laughed before giving a salute to soldier and veterans.
He was called back for an encore of “Take the Money And Run.”
