Artist: Blue Rodeo
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #73 Jan-Feb 2008
Blue Rodeo – Small Miracles
Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy, the Lennon & McCartney of Canadian roots-rock, have been writing and performing together for 25 years. While there’s nothing to indicate that Small Miracles represents the end of the road, it does feel like it was written from a vantage point where that end is visible. References to mortality and [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Blue Rodeo – On the way to everywhere
“Just when it seems like it’s absolutely pointless and useless to continue, there’s that little glimmer of the eternal that shines through and you realize that you’re going to make it through this thing.” The sticker continues to hang tough on my copy of Blue Rodeo’s Lost Together even though it’s been thirteen years since [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Blue Rodeo / Oh Susanna – Cat’s Cradle (Carrboro, NC)
For a number of years, the names Graham Parker, Alejandro Escovedo, and Blue Rodeo were at the top of the list of solo artists and bands I’d long admired but had never seen perform. However, since 1997 I’ve caught Parker three times and Escovedo at least a half dozen, but until this calm September night, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Blue Rodeo – Palace Of Gold
Consistency is a strange quality — so esteemed in some careers (say, designated hitters or stock portfolio managers) and so undervalued in music. Artists who achieve creative summits or tumble into the bad record abyss are inclined to snatch our attention, for better or worse. Meanwhile, acts that reliably, quietly deliver quality work without the [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Blue Rodeo – Bowery Ballroom (New York City, NY)
Blue Rodeo hits the Bowery Ballroom stage with the jagged aura of a group that has bussed all over the U.S. in recent months (supporting their latest album, The Days In Between), sweeping into New York City on the back of a formidable Nor’Easter. Even the typically sunny Jim Cuddy carries himself with more gravity [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
Blue Rodeo – The Days In Between
Toronto’s Blue Rodeo was hailed as a promising young roots-conscious rock band early in its career, but more than a decade later, they’ve yet to make any major dent in the U.S. (though they were one of Canada’s biggest-selling bands of the 1990s). This is perhaps partially because of their clockwork-like modus operandi: Release a [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #25 Jan-Feb 2000
Blue Rodeo / Sadies – Schubas (Chicago, IL)
The sub-genre might be called Americana, but would it exist without Canadians? Not as we know it anyway — consider the contributions of Great White Northerners Neil Young and (most of) The Band. Maybe it should be “North Americana.” Fans of Toronto’s Blue Rodeo, who’ve long fretted over the band’s failure to garner a stateside [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #11 Sept-Oct 1997
Blue Rodeo – Beyond the blues
It’s a predictable ending for Tremolo, a seven-minute song titled “Frog’s Lullaby” that slowly, quietly fades-to-black the hour-long musical excursion that preceded it. Such conclusions have been a trademark of most Blue Rodeo records, so you almost come to expect such a denouement, letting you go gentle into that good night. Twenty seconds later, an [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #2 Winter 1995
Blue Rodeo – Nowhere to Here
On Blue Rodeo’s Five Days In July album of a couple years back, the band consistently produced track after track of terrific country-flavored rock ‘n’ roll. A very successful, very talented quintet with platinum sales in their Canadian homeland, they’ve been trying to crack the States now for nearly a decade, issuing five albums that [...]
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