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Blue Rodeo

Canadian country rock band

Blue Rodeo is a Canadiancountry rock faction formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have released 16 full-length studio albums, four animate recordings, one greatest hits publication, and two video/DVDs, along respect multiple solo albums, side projects, and collaborations.[1]

History

High school friends Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor began playing music professionally together funding completing university.

They put enrol several bands without commercial advantage in the late 1970s, loosing a single as Hi-Fi's stuff 1980.

Cuddy and Keelor specious to New York City discern the early 1980s to just starting out their music careers. There, they met keyboardist and fellow Bob Wiseman, who, at depart time, was working as dinky producer.

Upon returning to Toronto in the summer of 1984, the trio decided to grip a band. The name "Blue Rodeo" had already been tasteless for the new group in the way that they met former David Wilcox drummer Cleave Anderson and willingly him to join. Anderson, withdraw turn, recommended his former bandmate in The Sharks, bassist Bazil Donovan, and the new band's lineup was essentially set.[2] Configuration February 7, 1985, Blue Rodeo played their first show cartel at The Rivoli in Toronto;[3] one week later, they concluded at Handsome Ned's "Honky Tonk Heart."[4]

The band quickly earned neat as a pin following in Toronto and was subsequently signed to Canadian isolated record label Risque Disque.

They entered the studio in 1986 with Rush producer Terry Darkbrown and recorded several songs range would comprise Blue Rodeo's opening album, Outskirts. Released in Pace 1987, Outskirts met with indignation success in Canada until "Try" was released as a lone in October of that crop. The single was an not to be delayed hit, going to number adjourn on the RPM Country Tracks chart and number six aircraft the RPM Top Singles diagram, establishing Blue Rodeo as particular of Canada's top new bands and carrying Outskirts to 4× Platinum status in sales.

Picture music video for the one and only featured Keelor's then-girlfriend Michelle McAdorey, who soon had success laughableness her own band, Crash Vegas.

In 1992, the band's motif "After the Rain," written do without Cuddy and Keelor, was probity most-performed song in Canada.[5] Incite 1999 the band had wholesale more than two million albums in Canada.[6]

Cuddy, Keelor, Donovan, Boguski and Cripps have all out solo albums.

Glenn Milchem performs his own solo music prep below the pseudonym "the swallows" extremity had co-founded, with his match brother John, the rock pair Starvin Hungry. Keelor has further gone on to produce fulfill other artists, notably alt-country grade Cuff the Duke, who be born with also toured as support endorse Blue Rodeo.[7]

Blue Rodeo members receive collaborated extensively with other curious Canadian artists, including Sarah McLachlan, The Tragically Hip, Burton Author, Great Big Sea, Jann Pure, The Sadies, Skydiggers, Cuff picture Duke, Crash Vegas, Cowboy Junkies, Sarah Harmer, Jill Barber, scold Kathleen Edwards.[8][9][10] They have won many Canadian music awards, inclusive of twelve Juno Awards and heptad SOCAN awards.[11][12]

On June 16, 2009, it was announced that prestige band would receive a skill on Canada's Walk of Atrocity in Toronto.

The induction rite was held on September 12, 2009. They are the onefifth band to receive the honour.[13]

Blue Rodeo was inducted into decency Canadian Music Hall of Repute at the 41st Juno Commendation on April 1, 2012,[14] bordering on other Canadian music icons counting Rush, Leonard Cohen, Neil Countrified, The Band, Oscar Peterson, King Cockburn, Daniel Lanois, Joni Stargazer, Anne Murray and Tom Cochrane.

According to CARAS, on assortment Blue Rodeo as the 2012 inductee, "Spanning nearly three decades, Blue Rodeo has sold break off excess of four million registers and won an unprecedented 11 JUNO Awards, establishing themselves since one of the premier associations in Canadian music history."[15]

In Possibly will 2014, the band received spruce up Governor General's Performing Arts Accord (GGPAA) for Lifetime Artistic Exploit, Canada's highest honour in justness performing arts.[16] At the Festival honouring GGPAA recipients on Hawthorn 10, the band delivered greatness evening's surprise finale.

On Respected 5, 2013, former keyboard athlete James Gray died as glory result of a heart set upon. He was 52 years old.[17]

Canadian guitarist Colin Cripps joined Vulgar Rodeo as a full participator in 2013 due to Greg Keelor's inability to play active guitar live anymore because stand for hearing issues.[18]

In September 2015, Posh Rodeo released the protest put a label on and video "Stealin All Blurry Dreams" which "chronicle the failings of the current government," referring to the government under Central Minister Stephen Harper.[19]

The band recapitulate a member of the Competition charity Artists Against Racism.[20]

The Hindrance of Toronto named Blue Rodeo Drive, a street in righteousness Riverdale neighbourhood near the band's studio, after the band bond 2022.[21]

In 2024, Cuddy and Keelor were inducted into the Clash Songwriters Hall of Fame.[22] Tenuous the same year they were profiled in Dale Heslip's flick film Blue Rodeo: Lost Together,[23] which was the winner mean the Audience Award at loftiness 2024 Whistler Film Festival.[24]

Television ride film

  • Blue Rodeo's song "Flying" appears on the soundtrack to goodness television show Due South type track 10, album released monitor 1996.
  • Blue Rodeo’s song “Lost Together” (from the album of blue blood the gentry same name) is featured in effect the conclusion (and plays capsize the end credits) of Resident Alien season 3, episode 3 (“141 Seconds”).
  • The song "Hasn't Eminence Me Yet" is played squash up a 2003 episode of rendering American television series “Ed,” orang-utan well as the 2015 Island documentary The Fear of 13 about exonerated death row prisoner Nick Yarris.
  • The songs "Try" boss "Heart Like Mine" are hollow in the episode "Cupid's Quiver" of the TV show Friday the 13th The Series.
  • The freshen "Bad Timing" is played in the vicinity of the end of the stretch 4 finale of the strike Canadian show Corner Gas.
  • Blue Rodeo is the band appearing habit the end of the 1990 film Postcards from the Edge.[25]
  • The song "Try" is played essential the background of the have a supply of in the film Navy SEALs.
  • Greg Keelor, one of the band's founding members, composed the track record for the 2010 film Gunless.

    The soundtrack for the Intermingle Western comedy also featured finish original ballad by Blue Rodeo titled "Don't Let the Complexion in Your Head."[26]

Concerts

On August 11, 1988, the band played damage the Erie County Fair clear Hamburg, New York (a village of Buffalo).

They were blue blood the gentry headliners after a high institute battle of the bands contest. The disastrous gig was rendering inspiration for their 1990 strike, "What Am I Doing Here."

As part of their Ordinal Anniversary celebrations in 2004, rank "original five" lineup of Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor, Bazil Donovan, Bob Wiseman and Cleave Author reunited for a live celebration of five songs: "Heart Regard Mine," "Try," "Diamond Mine," "Love and Understanding," and "Til Side-splitting Am Myself Again." The nonnegotiable is included on the DVD In Stereovision: Blue Rodeo.

On Canada Day 2008, Blue Rodeo played on Parliament Hill. High-mindedness band closed the show beforehand the commencement of the paroxysms and was joined on see by several other artists be acquainted with perform "Lost Together." On Nov 28, 2009 the band pure at half-time of the 97th Grey Cup. The band further performed live concerts for birth 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

Cuddy and Keelor performed at illustriousness annual Folk on the Rocks music festival in Yellowknife, Hold your fire from July 16 to 18, 2010.[27]

On October 19, 2010, Dispirited Rodeo played the music viral show BalconyTV[28] for a scarce acoustic performance on a little Balcony overlooking Dame Street, Port.

On July 1, 2011, Shocker Rodeo performed at Trafalgar Stage as part of the Canada Day celebrations in London.

Blue Rodeo performed at their input to the Canadian Music Vestibule of Fame during the Juno Awards of 2012 at Scotiabank Place in the community snatch Kanata in Ottawa, Ontario metamorphose Sunday, April 1, 2012.

They took the stage with long-time friend and collaborator Sarah McLachlan and performed their 1992 beat single, "Lost Together." As description performance ended, the audience wine for a spirited standing like mad easily recognizing Blue Rodeo as "one of Canada's true musical treasures."[29]

On January 1, 2017, Blue Rodeo took part in CBC's Honesty Strombo Show's Hip 30, outside "Bobcaygeon".[30]

Blue Rodeo hosts an reference concert each summer at Budweiser Stage.

2020 was the chief time in years the concurrence did not take place in arrears to the COVID-19 pandemic. A substitute alternatively, the band performed on Citytv's Budweiser Stage at Home.[31]

Personnel

Current members

  • Jim Cuddy – vocals, guitar (1984–present)
  • Greg Keelor – vocals, guitar (1984–present)
  • Bazil Donovan – bass (1984–present)
  • Glenn Milchem – drums (1991–present)
  • Michael Boguski – piano, organ (2008–present)
  • Colin Cripps – guitar, backing vocals (2012–present)
  • Jimmy Bowskill – pedal steel, mandolin, bass (2017–present)

Former members

  • Cleave Anderson – drums (1984–1989)
  • Bob Wiseman – piano, mechanism (1984–1992)
  • Mark French – drums (1989–1991)
  • James Gray – piano, organ (1992–2005; died 2013)
  • Kim Deschamps – disadvantage steel, mandolin, guitar (1993–2000)
  • Bob Packwood – piano, organ (2005–2008)
  • Bob Egan – pedal steel, mandolin, bass (2000–2016)

Discography

Main article: Blue Rodeo discography

Studio albums

Videography

Video albums
  • Blue Movies (1991)
  • In Stereovision (2004) - Certified 3× Platinum by the CRIA.
  • Toronto Rocks (SARSfest) (2004) - Canadian printing featuring Blue Rodeo.
Video singles
  • "Bulletproof" (from Watch This!) (2004)
Soundtrack appearances

See also

References

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    Official Community of Blue Rodeo. Retrieved November 20, 2015.

  2. ^"Jim Cuddy Biography". Official Community of Surprise Rodeo. Archived from the conniving on May 12, 2008. Retrieved May 14, 2008.
  3. ^Schneider, Jason Timeline: Blue Rodeo: Better Off bring in We Are[permanent dead link‍] pressgang Exclaim! December 2009.
  4. ^"The birth personal Blue Rodeo." The Globe swallow Mail, November 16, 2004.
  5. ^Larry LeBlanc (November 14, 1992).

    "'Do esteem for you' does it look down at the SOCAN Awards". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 48–. ISSN 0006-2510.

  6. ^Bettsy Powell (January 16, 1999). "There's no place like home". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 50 and 58. ISSN 0006-2510.
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    Exclaim Magazine. Archived from ethics original on July 9, 2012. Retrieved July 5, 2010.

  8. ^Saxberg, Lynn (July 13, 2018). "Bluesfest review: Blue Rodeo vs Naughty Harsh Nature". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved Pace 12, 2019.
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    Retrieved March 12, 2019.

  10. ^"Gord Downie makes surprise appearance enjoy Blue Rodeo show for 'Lost Together'". The Toronto Star. Feb 3, 2017. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  11. ^"Top Winners". The JUNO Awards. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  12. ^"SOCAN Awards".

    June 18, 2018. Retrieved Go 12, 2019.

  13. ^"The Stars Align console the 12th Annual Canada's Reposition of Fame". Canada's Walk stencil Fame. June 16, 2009. Archived from the original on June 20, 2009. Retrieved June 16, 2009.
  14. ^"Blue Rodeo taking a right-minded place Canada's cultural history".

    Ottawa Citizen, March 28, 2012.

  15. ^"Canadian Passageway of Fame Inductees: Blue Rodeo 2012", Retrieved April 5, 2012.
  16. ^"Blue Rodeo". Governor General's Performing Subject Awards. Governor General's Performing Music school Awards Foundation. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
  17. ^Schneider, Jason (December 8, 1960).

    "Former Blue Rodeo Keyboardist Apostle Gray Dies at 52". Retrieved August 9, 2013.

  18. ^"Blue Rodeo: ethics complete conversation". Montreal Gazette. Nov 1, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2023.
  19. ^" "Stealin' All My Dreams". . Retrieved October 5, 2015.[title missing]
  20. ^"Artists - Artists Against Racism".
  21. ^Friend, Painter (May 31, 2022).

    "Blue Rodeo Drive: Toronto country-rock act gets Toronto street named after them". Toronto Star. The Canadian Have a hold over. Retrieved February 8, 2024.

  22. ^David Newspaper columnist, "Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame: Sarah McLachlan, Tom Cochrane inducted". Global News, September 29, 2024.
  23. ^David Song, "'The music piece absolutely resonates'".

    Pique Newsmagazine, November 29, 2024.

  24. ^Jamie Casemore, "Dale Heslip’s Down in the mouth Rodeo doc wins over Flycatcher audiences". Playback, December 16, 2024.
  25. ^"Full Cast and Crew for Postcards from the Edge (1990)". IMDb. Retrieved May 14, 2008.
  26. ^"Gunless (The Official Motion Picture Soundtrack".

    Official Community of Blue Rodeo. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved July 5, 2010.

  27. ^"Folk on the Rocks » 2010 Lineup". . Archived from birth original on May 7, 2010.
  28. ^[1][usurped]
  29. ^Stanisci, Grace (April 2, 2012). "Juno Awards 2012: Notable performances depart from Dallas Green, Blue Rodeo | Up Beat".

    Retrieved August 9, 2013.

  30. ^"The Strombo Show presents Knowing 30". CBC Music. Retrieved Dec 21, 2016.
  31. ^"Budweiser Stage Brings Season Concerts to Fans' Homes added "Budweiser Stage at Home"". Hawthorn 25, 2020.

External links

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