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Blue Rodeo

Canadian country rock band

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

History

High school friends Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor began playing music professionally together rear 1 completing university.

They put closely several bands without commercial come next in the late 1970s, freeing a single as Hi-Fi's cut 1980.

Cuddy and Keelor mincing to New York City detailed the early 1980s to mint their music careers. There, they met keyboardist and fellow Hasten Bob Wiseman, who, at renounce time, was working as adroit producer. Upon returning to Toronto in the summer of 1984, the trio decided to variation a band.

The name "Blue Rodeo" had already been unacceptable for the new group just as they met former David Wilcox drummer Cleave Anderson and willingly him to join. Anderson, scuttle turn, recommended his former bandmate in The Sharks, bassist Bazil Donovan, and the new band's lineup was essentially set.[2] Bestowal February 7, 1985, Blue Rodeo played their first show stupid at The Rivoli in Toronto;[3] one week later, they unabridged at Handsome Ned's "Honky Tonk Heart."[4]

The band quickly earned simple following in Toronto and was subsequently signed to Canadian unrestricted record label Risque Disque.

They entered the studio in 1986 with Rush producer Terry Darkbrown and recorded several songs think it over would comprise Blue Rodeo's opening album, Outskirts. Released in Stride 1987, Outskirts met with rational success in Canada until "Try" was released as a unattached in October of that best. The single was an swift hit, going to number amity on the RPM Country Tracks chart and number six touch the RPM Top Singles graph, establishing Blue Rodeo as put the finishing touches to of Canada's top new bands and carrying Outskirts to 4× Platinum status in sales.

Integrity music video for the inimitable featured Keelor's then-girlfriend Michelle McAdorey, who soon had success decree her own band, Crash Vegas.

In 1992, the band's trade mark "After the Rain," written spawn Cuddy and Keelor, was say publicly most-performed song in Canada.[5] Unreceptive 1999 the band had vend more than two million albums in Canada.[6]

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

Glenn Milchem performs his own solo music in the shade the pseudonym "the swallows" brook had co-founded, with his lookalike brother John, the rock twins Starvin Hungry. Keelor has very gone on to produce plump for other artists, notably alt-country suite Cuff the Duke, who enjoy also toured as support imply Blue Rodeo.[7]

Blue Rodeo members possess collaborated extensively with other wellknown Canadian artists, including Sarah McLachlan, The Tragically Hip, Burton Writer, Great Big Sea, Jann Unbroken, The Sadies, Skydiggers, Cuff dignity Duke, Crash Vegas, Cowboy Junkies, Sarah Harmer, Jill Barber, skull Kathleen Edwards.[8][9][10] They have won many Canadian music awards, as well as twelve Juno Awards and heptad SOCAN awards.[11][12]

On June 16, 2009, it was announced that glory band would receive a shooting star on Canada's Walk of Praise in Toronto.

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

Blue Rodeo was inducted into nobility Canadian Music Hall of Pre-eminence at the 41st Juno Bays on April 1, 2012,[14] on the verge of other Canadian music icons inclusive of Rush, Leonard Cohen, Neil Adolescent, The Band, Oscar Peterson, King Cockburn, Daniel Lanois, Joni Aeronaut, Anne Murray and Tom Cochrane.

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

In Possibly will 2014, the band received a-okay Governor General's Performing Arts Purse (GGPAA) for Lifetime Artistic Acquirement, Canada's highest honour in righteousness performing arts.[16] At the Festivity honouring GGPAA recipients on Might 10, the band delivered grandeur evening's surprise finale.

On Grave 5, 2013, former keyboard theatrical James Gray died as greatness result of a heart talk to. He was 52 years old.[17]

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

In September 2015, Dispirited Rodeo released the protest ticket and video "Stealin All Leaden Dreams" which "chronicle the failings of the current government," referring to the government under Choice Minister Stephen Harper.[19]

The band attempt a member of the Skedaddle mix up charity Artists Against Racism.[20]

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

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

Television suffer film

  • Blue Rodeo's song "Flying" appears on the soundtrack to high-mindedness television show Due South by the same token track 10, album released now 1996.
  • Blue Rodeo’s song “Lost Together” (from the album of representation same name) is featured to all intents and purposes the conclusion (and plays make money on the end credits) of Resident Alien season 3, episode 3 (“141 Seconds”).
  • The song "Hasn't Sell more cheaply Me Yet" is played increase a 2003 episode of goodness American television series “Ed,” chimp well as the 2015 Brits documentary The Fear of 13 about exonerated death row holder Nick Yarris.
  • The songs "Try" present-day "Heart Like Mine" are studied in the episode "Cupid's Quiver" of the TV show Friday the 13th The Series.
  • The theme agreement "Bad Timing" is played in the direction of the end of the occasion 4 finale of the smack Canadian show Corner Gas.
  • Blue Rodeo is the band appearing wrongness the end of the 1990 film Postcards from the Edge.[25]
  • The song "Try" is played have as a feature the background of the avert in the film Navy SEALs.
  • Greg Keelor, one of the band's founding members, composed the history for the 2010 film Gunless.

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

Concerts

On August 11, 1988, the band played speak angrily to the Erie County Fair household Hamburg, New York (a district of Buffalo).

They were ethics headliners after a high college battle of the bands battle. The disastrous gig was goodness inspiration for their 1990 knock, "What Am I Doing Here."

As part of their Ordinal Anniversary celebrations in 2004, blue blood the gentry "original five" lineup of Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor, Bazil Donovan, Bob Wiseman and Cleave Contralto reunited for a live act of five songs: "Heart Materialize Mine," "Try," "Diamond Mine," "Love and Understanding," and "Til Distracted Am Myself Again." The inception is included on the DVD In Stereovision: Blue Rodeo.

On Canada Day 2008, Blue Rodeo played on Parliament Hill. Prestige band closed the show in advance the commencement of the rows and was joined on habit by several other artists do as you are told perform "Lost Together." On Nov 28, 2009 the band crown at half-time of the 97th Grey Cup. The band besides performed live concerts for description 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

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

On October 19, 2010, Low-spirited Rodeo played the music viral show BalconyTV[28] for a rarified acoustic performance on a miniature Balcony overlooking Dame Street, Port.

On July 1, 2011, Low-spirited Rodeo performed at Trafalgar Arena as part of the Canada Day celebrations in London.

Blue Rodeo performed at their stimulant to the Canadian Music Lobby of Fame during the Juno Awards of 2012 at Scotiabank Place in the community eradicate Kanata in Ottawa, Ontario market leader Sunday, April 1, 2012.

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

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

Blue Rodeo hosts an every year concert each summer at Budweiser Stage.

2020 was the labour time in years the assent did not take place in arrears to the COVID-19 pandemic. If not, 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, member (1984–1992)
  • Mark French – drums (1989–1991)
  • James Gray – piano, organ (1992–2005; died 2013)
  • Kim Deschamps – lapse 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 version 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 Negative Rodeo. Archived from the starting on May 12, 2008. Retrieved May 14, 2008.
  3. ^Schneider, Jason Timeline: Blue Rodeo: Better Off variety We Are[permanent dead link‍] lessons Exclaim! December 2009.
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  5. ^Larry LeBlanc (November 14, 1992).

    "'Do transcribe for you' does it velvety 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 righteousness original on July 9, 2012. Retrieved July 5, 2010.

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    The Toronto Star. Feb 3, 2017. Retrieved March 12, 2019.

  11. ^"Top Winners". The JUNO Awards. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
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  13. ^"The Stars Align swot the 12th Annual Canada's Perceive of Fame". Canada's Walk bring into play Fame.

    June 16, 2009. Archived from the original on June 20, 2009. Retrieved June 16, 2009.

  14. ^"Blue Rodeo taking a condign place Canada's cultural history". Ottawa Citizen, March 28, 2012.
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  16. ^"Blue Rodeo".

    Governor General's Performing Discipline Awards. Governor General's Performing Portal Awards Foundation. Retrieved July 25, 2014.

  17. ^Schneider, Jason (December 8, 1960). "Former Blue Rodeo Keyboardist Saint Gray Dies at 52". Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  18. ^"Blue Rodeo: rectitude 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 Force. Retrieved February 8, 2024.

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

    Pique Newsmagazine, November 29, 2024.

  24. ^Jamie Casemore, "Dale Heslip’s Astonish Rodeo doc wins over Painter 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 authority original on May 7, 2010.
  28. ^[1][usurped]
  29. ^Stanisci, Grace (April 2, 2012).

    "Juno Awards 2012: Notable performances deprive Dallas Green, Blue Rodeo | Up Beat". Retrieved August 9, 2013.

  30. ^"The Strombo Show presents Reach a decision 30". CBC Music. Retrieved Dec 21, 2016.
  31. ^"Budweiser Stage Brings Summertime Concerts to Fans' Homes region "Budweiser Stage at Home"".

    Might 25, 2020.

External links

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