Blue Rodeo, Blue Rodeo.

[poppachubby]

Awesome FA!! I ask you this... who from Toronto, that didn't witness their rise to glory, doesn't love Blue Rodeo?!? I also love them to death. A friend of mine happened to be strolling down by Union Station a couple years ago when he heard this great group of buskersw doing BR covers. Of course, upon close inspection, it was them!!! They were doing promotion for their latest album at the time, pretty cool.

Have you seen the new box set, 1987 - 1993? Each album is being released individually as well, fully remastered and annotized from a modern perspective. I am going to ask for a box set for Xmas.

[ForeverAutumn]

Hey Poppa, I haven't seen you around here in a while. Good to see you. That Union Station story is cool. Do you also like Jim Cuddy's solo stuff? I have his three solo albums and they are very good. His voice just makes me melt.

That box set is also on my Xmas wish list. Other than Diamond Mine I think that their early CDs are pretty good quality and I'm not sure that I need remasters. But there's a lot of bonus material in that set that I'm very interested in hearing. Unreleased songs and early recordings of songs. I once heard the very first recorded version of Try...not anything like the final version that ended up on Outskirts. It wasn't a ballad, it was quite poppy! I love that kind of stuff.

I saw an interview with Jim and Greg Keelor on Canada AM and Greg said that he didn't just remaster Outskirts, but actually remixed it. I'm curious about that too.