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Chippewas blue fire2/26/2024 Lost Together brought back on stage Cuddy's son, Devin, and members of his band who opened the show.ĭevin Cuddy Band is nominated for a Juno Award this year in the roots and traditional album category. ![]() ![]() He and Cuddy, on the mandolin, almost sat back and relaxed as the chorus of fans took over.īlue Rodeo, omitting the political punk country Outskirts, reserved their biggest radio hit, Try, for their first encore followed by Lost Together. When Keelor asked for help singing, he got it. ![]() Many Blue Rodeo followers would vote that album the group's best and its signature song brought the night's biggest applause.īy the time the band weaved its way to Hasn't Hit Me Yet, the most perfect, definitive relationship song until Taylor Swift came along with We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together, the audience was fully engaged. Ditto for Five Days in May, from 1993's album Five Days in July. Maybe so, but the largely 50-plus audience was even more in the mood for the likes of Rose-Coloured Glasses, a classic Blue Rodeo song which rocked the house in the hands of the current band lineup. "But we're all older now and I think we can handle it," he said. The underappreciated Til I Am Myself Again from Casino, the album that was supposed to launch Blue Rodeo in America, and After the Rain, featuring a soaring vocal performance by Cuddy, followed in quick succession.Ĭuddy purposely slowed the momentum by inserting Girl of Mine, a song he admitted "bummed the audience out" when they first performed it in shows over 20 years ago. This is when fans' love shined like a diamond mine, beaming with Blue Rodeo memories and appreciative of keyboardist Michael Boguski's extended solo in which he may or may not have been channelling Iron Butterfly.įrom there, it was a barrage of hits which at times had many fans standing and dancing. Having a first set almost exclusively songs from In Our Nature seem to test the crowd, especially the final four tunes before the second of two intermission breaks on the night.īut all was quickly forgiven as the second set opened with Keelor, awash in sparkling red spotlights, cried out the opening lyrics to Diamond Mine. Injecting that Stones tune was a wise choice by Cuddy and Keelor, who quite rightly sensed a restlessness in an audience primed and pumped to hear the familiar songs, but required to politely listen to new material for 10 out of the first 11 songs of the show. Kicking off with the lively New Morning Sun, the strongest track from the new album, the band rattled off six tunes in a row, including Tell Me Again, a catchy Nashville-infused number featuring ace guitarist Bob Egan on the Dobro guitar, from In Our Nature before letting loose with a cover of the Rolling Stones' The Last Time. ![]() The tour started in January in Vancouver and ends in March in Montreal. Now a seven-piece outfit but still defined by co-lead vocalists Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy, Blue Rodeo brought their In Our Nature tour to a not-quite-sold-out Budweiser Gardens RBC Theatre on Saturday night. Liking this band is in our nature as Canadians. Juno Award winners, Order of Canada recipients and musical homebodies, Blue Rodeo may well be the definitive Canadian band - a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll and, for more than 25 years, a whole lot of hard work. Then again, Blue Rodeo isn't just any band. Not many middle-aged bands would spend the winter crisscrossing Canada.
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