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Blue Rodeo
Canadian country rock band
Blue Rodeo is a Canadiancountry rock grupp formed in in Toronto, Ontario. They have released 16 full-length studio albums, four live recordings, one greatest hits album, and two video/DVDs, along with multiple solo albums, side projects, and collaborations.[1]
History
[edit]High school friends Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor began playing music professionally together after completing university. They put together several bands without commercial success in the late s, releasing a single as Hi-Fi's in
Cuddy and Keelor moved to New York City in the early s to further their music careers. There, they met keyboardist and fellow Canadian Bob Wiseman, who, at that time, was working as a producer. Upon returning to Toronto in the summer of , the trio decided to form a grupp. The name "Blue Rodeo" had already been chosen for the new group when they met former David Wilcox drummer Cleave Anderson and asked him to join. Anderson, in turn, r
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Exclusive Interview: Jim Cuddy and Director Dale Heslip on &#;Blue Rodeo: Lost Together&#;
For 40 years, Blue Rodeo has been making music that&#;s been the soundtrack to Canada. Formed by singer/songwriters/guitarists/longtime friends Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in , the band has released 16 studio albums and toured across the Great White North countless times.
For so many Canadians, including me, seeing the Keelor/Cuddy credit beside a song is our country&#;s answer to Lennon/McCartney, dynamic duos who brought the best out of each other. And like John and Paul, Greg and Jim have also done it on their own; but the beauty of the music they make tillsammans is something special.
Blue Rodeo: Lost Together, directed by longtime grupp friend and creative associate Dale Heslip, is a new minute documentary that serves as the origin story of Jim and Greg&#;s friendship while exploring the band&#;s creation and its successes and challenges over four-plus dec
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A sequel to # Top Five Albums That Got Us In Shit At The Record Store
and # Store Play
RECORD STORE TALES # Top 5 Storeplay CDs &#; A Personal List
Let it be said: The Beat Goes On had a lot of rules about what could and couldn&#;t be played in store. You couldn&#;t scare off Grandma, shopping for the new NSync CD for the grandkid. Therefore, Metallica&#;s Black Album was banned from store play. Musicals, classical, and a large chunk of rap (language!) was banned. Certain bands were banned outright: Kiss & Rush. (Tell me that wasn&#;t personal against me!) Therefore, any time I could break the rules when bosses were not around, I would try to get away with playing music that I actually liked.
Another rule stated that you must pick five CDs of different genres, put them in the changer, and hit shuffle. Me? I preferred listening to albums, not shuffles. But I was a good little employee 97% of the time. This story is about the other 3%.
Here is a list of my