Lethbridge bluesman Paul Kype debuted his long awaited new CD, aptly titled “Long Time Comin’” for a sold out Slice, March 28.
They began around 9:45 p.m. with one of Kype’s older originals “Freight Train,” played a Stevie Ray Vaughan song and then concentrated on the new CD with “ Rattle My Chains.”
Kype slowed things down with an older song he wrote about a cowboy friend of his called “ Cowgirl” which appears on the new CD and picked up the tempo with “Long Time Coming.”
After “Heed the Call” he welcomed lead guitarist Greg Gomola to the stage to take the band through to the end of the first set with a couple of capable covers of “ Hush” and the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”
The band, which included Earl Mcauly on keyboards and Brady Valgardson on drums and bassist Craig Erdman were tight as they let Kype sing in his powerful voice and play a lot of hot leads, though he also had a lot of catchy rhythm.
Mcauly’s organ and keyboard sounds always enhance Paul Kype’s music and did so in spades.
