I hadn’t seen local blues blues rock band Zojo Black play for many months, so it was great to see Greg Gomola, Paul Kype, bassist Tyson Maiko and drummer Brady Valgardson playing together again, Feb. 28 at the Slice.
While I was hoping to hear new material, they played a whole bunch of covers won which Gomola and Kype alternated singing lead vocals.
There were familiar standards like their version of “Simple Man” the apt “Cold December Night” and Neil Young’s“Heart of Gold, plus a few songs from the Zojo Black album including one of my favourites “Keep it Real”
Both Paul Kype and Gomola are as exceptional singers as they are guitarists and showed it.
they nailed d the note perfect harmonized guitar solo for Hotel California.
They played some Stevie Ray Vaughn of course with a hot version of “Pride and Joy.”
they also had a cool cover of the Cars’ “Just What I needed” which got a lot more people on the dance floor. They also played some modern covers of the Black Keys and an excellent cover of Violent Femmes’ “Blister In the Sun.”
For a special treat they brought Jenn Pellerin up on stage for a goose-bump raising blues cover of “I Just Want to Make Love To You.”
And of course, they played crowd favourite “Hush.”