1000 Arms Blue Rodeo

• 1 Hard to Remember 04:56
• 2 I Can't Hide This Anymore 03:21
• 3 Jimmy Fall Down 04:18
• 4 Long Hard Life 03:40
• 5 Rabbit's Foot 04:03
• 6 1000 Arms 04:33
• 7 Dust to Gold 04:39
• 8 Superstar 03:37
• 9 Mascara Tears 04:25
• 10 Can't Find My Way Back to You 05:20
• 11 So Hard to See 04:48
• 12 The Flame 06:31
• Total Runtime 54:11

Info zu 1000 Arms

The definition of a rebel is someone who goes against the grain. For close to 30 years now, Blue Rodeo has taken the road less traveled - and succeeded far beyond anyone's expectations. The band emerged in the early-80's as a countrified rock band in the era of hair metal and glossy pop. Despite sticking out like a sore thumb (or maybe because of it), their single "Try" became omnipresent on radio across Canada and set in motion a three decade long career of headlining every club, theater and arena in The True North. In 1993, when grunge rock was squeezing commercial rock off the radio, they recorded their most acoustic album, Five Days In July, and scored their biggest hit selling over a half million copies of that one record alone.

And now, in the digital age, Blue Rodeo has recorded 1000 Arms, an intimate album designed to be enjoyed on vinyl. Fourteen albums on, the rebel is still living and breathing. 1000 Arms was recorded over the winter of 2015/16 at Blue Rodeo's Woodshed Studios. The album shares its name with the Jim Cuddy-penned song inspired by a podcast he was listening to. "The podcast was about allowing your community to help you," says Cuddy. "When we were going over titles, we were thinking about our musical community, what it means to us and how much we would do for each other. That was what we were thinking about the most, so it seemed like an appropriate title."

The 12-track record was co-produced and engineered by Tim Vesely, a founding member of the Rheostatics. Jim and his longtime bandmate Greg Keelor credit Vesely with helping influence the sound of the new album. The engineer had been listening to some of the band's older records and commented that Jim and Greg weren't singing together as much as they used to. The revelation caught the band off guard but the result brought the band back to what has always been one of their strengths. "We made a very concerted effort to sing together on this album, either with direct harmonies or call and response, and we really enjoyed that," adds Cuddy.

Bazil Donovan, bass
Bob Egan, pedal steel guitar, mandolin
Colin Cripps, guitar, backing vocals
Glenn Milchem, drums, percussion
Greg Keelor, vocals, guitar, guitar synthesizer (tracks 7, 11, 12)
Jim Cuddy, vocals, guitar, Wurlitzer (track 9)
Michael Boguski, piano, electric piano, organ
Additional musicians:
Jimmy Bowskill, mandolin (tracks 2, 3)
Gary Pattison, French horn (track 8)

Blue Rodeo
The definition of a rebel is someone who goes against the grain. For close to thirty years now, Blue Rodeo has taken the road less travelled – and succeeded far beyond anyone’s expectations. The band emerged in the early 80’s as a countrified rock band in the era of hair metal and glossy pop. Despite sticking out like a sore thumb (or maybe because of it), their single “Try” became omni-present on radio across Canada and set in motion a three decade long career of headlining every club, theatre and arena in Canada. In 1993, when grunge rock was squeezing commercial rock off the radio, they recorded their most acoustic album, Five Days In July, and scored their biggest hit selling over a half million copies of that one record alone.

Now, with their 16th Warner Music Canada studio album – Many A Mile – Blue Rodeo’s successes are measured in terms that include induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (2012), receiving a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award (2014) and acknowledgement that the band has steadfastly defined itself by its own terms, and in the years that ensued, sold in excess of four million records.

Reflecting back on three decades of successes and those early Blue Rodeo days, both Jim and Greg are able to fully appreciate where the band sits in the pantheon of music. “Success seemed really real when we were entertaining people at The Horseshoe. That was the top of the heap for us,” Cuddy says. “When you look back, you realize that it has just been this beautiful dream.”

In the 35 years since forming, Blue Rodeo have sold over 4 million albums, received dozens of JUNO Award nominations and wins, played over 2,000 shows, been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, received a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame, been named to the Order of Canada and have been honoured with the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award. And they’re still as strong as ever with the upcoming release of their 16th album Many A Mile, and a national tour on the horizon.

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