Artist: Blue Rodeo Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Country
Rock: Folk-Rock
Discography:
Small Miracles Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
The Days In Between Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Tremolo Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Five Days In July Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
Casino Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Outskirts Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
Palace of Gold Year:
Tracks: 14
Canada's most popular roots rock music band, Blue Rodeo became a regular institution in their plate commonwealth, although they ne'er quite stirred beyond cult position in the U.S. Their healthy was a canonical blend of commonwealth, folk, and john Rock, only with a definite kill appeal that underlined their devotion to later-period Beatles, in addition to expected touchstones like Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, and the Band. Consistency was the hallmark of Blue Rodeo's output signal, both in damage of sound (which followed a great deal the same design throughout their career) and quality (thanks to the songwriting team of vocalists/guitarists Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor). That, in twist, allowed the band considerable seniority, and they started to realise a whole modern audience with the advent of the No Depression movement.
Blue Rodeo was founded in Toronto by its two trail singers, guitarists, and songwriters, Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor. The two met in high school day and had been performing together since 1977, when they started a punk-influenced band called the HiFis. In 1981, they moved to New York in search of a record dole out, and reorganised the band under a modern identify, Fly to France. Three long time of hunt proven futile, and the mathematical group switched styles several times in front Cuddy and Keelor returned to Toronto in 1984. The following year, they assembled a new stripe with the idea of reversive to organic, guitar-based music in an geological era dominated by synth-pop. Christened Blue Rodeo, the initial lineup besides featured drummer Cleave Anderson, bassist Bazil Donovan, and keyboardist Bob Wiseman.
Blue Rodeo promptly became a popular bouncy act on the Toronto view, which was already geared toward the tolerant of music the band was playacting. They caught the attention of John Caton's Risque Disque pronounce, which signed them and worked knocked out a dispersion deal with Warner's Canadian division. Their 1987 debut album,
Outskirts, was a smash hit in Canada, selling over cc,000 copies (the Canadian equivalent of dual atomic number 78) and landing place them a slot on circuit opening for k.d. lang. The more self-examining, socially aware
Rhombus Mine followed in 1989, and it sold level punter, non to honorable mention winning the band its number one of many Juno Awards. That same year, they appeared in the Meryl Streep film
Postcards From the Edge, merely too lost drummer Anderson, world Health Organization retired from music and was replaced by Mark French. Meanwhile, Wiseman released his low gear solo record album,
In Her Dream: Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle.
Moving up from the now-defunct Risque Disque to Warner itself, Blue Rodeo made a promotional push in the United States with their third base album, 1990's somewhat poppier
Cassino. Produced by Pete Anderson (of Dwight Yoakam fame), the album was a hit with American critics, just not American record buyers; nevertheless, it still went pt in Canada. Blue Rodeo returned in 1992 with one of their most acclaimed albums,
Preoccupied Together; it marked the concluding appearances of Mark French and Bob Wiseman, the latter of whom had already realised a second solo disk and asleep for a highly idiosyncratic life history on his possess. New drummer Glenn Milchem, keyboardist James Gray, and steel guitarist Kim Deschamps were all onboard for 1994's folky, largely acoustic
Five Days in July. Recorded at Keelor's rural farmhouse the old summer, it proven to be unitary of the band's biggest critical and commercial successes in Canada, introducing a number of winnow favorites.
Juicy Rodeo's hot streak continued with 1995's
Nowhere to Here, a more eclectic record book that re-established the group's connection to '60s psychedelia. The reexamination, 1997's
Tremolo, was a looser, more than jam-oriented record that focussed on spontaneousness over careful songcraft; mayhap as a answer, it standard mixed reviews. Meanwhile, Keelor issued his low gear solo record album,
At peace, that year, and Cuddy's own debut,
All in Time, followed in 1998. Following those english projects, Blue Rodeo issued the double live assemblage
Just Like a Vacation in 1999, and reconvened in the studio for
The Days in Between. By the prison term it was released in 2000 (again to mixed reviews), Kim Deschamps had parted shipway with the band, and was replaced by quondam Wilco penis Bob Egan. Following the release of a
Sterling Hits album in 2001, Egan made his debut on 2002's
Castle of Gold. The group returned in 2005 with
Are You Ready and once more in 2007 with
Pocket-size Miracles, both for WEA International.
