The Mystery Voice from All In Time! You can decide what you think he's saying... and if you want to try this at home, it can be found right after Disappointment. When you listen to this, you have to turn the speakers on your computer WAY up. Turning up the volume on the recorder itself resulted in major distortion, but if you just turn up your own volume, it works pretty well. Happy listening!
Hello again, and welcome to the sounds page. There's sort of been a format change here. I'm putting sounds that are NOT from any actual Blue Rodeo album, but rather from other projects that Blue Rodeo or members thereof are connected with. I now have sounds from Greg Keelor's Gone, Pine Ridge, Blue Rodeo's incredible rendition of I've Been Waiting For You off the Neil Young tribute album, Borrowed Tunes, clips from Jim Cuddy's solo album All In Time, and a couple clips of Greg Keelor singing backup for Linda Mcrae. Hopefully these rarities will hep you to decide if you want to buy them or not, especially if you live someplace where you'd have to special order them. And I'm also keeping the interview bits. I may add more. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, you can reach me here, as usual.
The first bunch are bits from interviews and stuff involving Jim and Greg speaking, while the rest are bits of songs.
NEW!!!
Here, by popular demand (well, okay, because the webmistress and her lovely assistant dig it): Sky! Live from On The Farm!
For those of you who made it to New Year's Eve at Niagara Falls, remember this? Everyone else: Here's Jim loving us :o)
The following are sound bites from Jim Cuddy's appearance on Pamela Wallin Live:
Rumours of Blue Rodeo's death were, as we know, greatly exaggerated: alive.
You guys made a movie once... Blue Rodeo Drive.
Jim describes the experience of making Postcards from the Edge: king for a day.
Jim reacts to Pamela's suggesting BR may have had a future in film scores: whatever!
Jim talks about the slight apprehension he and Greg felt embarking upon their solo albums: mistake.
Jim tells us what Too Many Hands is all about: interference.
The following two sounds are from Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor appearing on WTN's Jane Hawtin Live:
Jim's impression of Bazil's dismay over the reputation he may be getting for singing I Was Stoned (And I Missed It) every night: Pothead
Greg telling Jane what it's like to do music for a living... hey, it's her fault - she asked: Stardom
From an interview Denise Donlon did with Jim and Greg when Lost Together came out: Greg's opinion of the only reasonable answer - that's Jim giggling at the end: The Answer
In this interview clip Greg talks about Lost Together... this was taken from the Q107 - Concerts in the Sky CD: Rockin'
From Blue Rodeo: On The Farm, which aired on CBC just before 5 Days In July came out: Jim explains how to get by in life: Surroundings
What did they think of Bryan Adams' controversial CRTC comments? From Friday Night With Ralph Benmurgui on CBC in 1992: Un-Canadian?
Jim comments on Nowhere To Here's lack of a theme: ??? ...I realize that, out of context, it sounds like he's putting it down, but he's not! Honest!
From their appearance on Rita & Friends on CBC in December of 1996:
Greg talking about playing Maple Leaf Gardens: Temple
Greg introducing Smoking Gun: Sing a Song
From Pine Ridge - Jim Cuddy's Smoking Gun: Singing the Song
Also from Pine Ridge - Greg Keelor's Pine Ridge: Traditions
And another from Pine Ridge (it's really long song): Pine Ridge
Blue Rodeo contributed a hypnotic rendition of Neil Young's I've Been Waiting For You to Borrowed Tunes, I have three clips: one, two, three
Here are a couple of clips from Leonard Cohen's Bird On A Wire, which Greg Keelor often covers in concert: torn, for thee.
These two clips are Linda Mcrae and Greg Keelor singing beautiful harmony on her Flying Jenny CD. The song is called Somewhere Along The Way: Linda & Greg, More Linda & Greg
DEMOS! From "Diamonds In The Rough/ Demos and other stuff..." Be warned, these are fairly large files because they are fairly long clips... they may take a bit longer to load.
Greg's demo of God And Country - just accompanied by acoustic guitar: Forever Lost.
The Blue Boys demo Jim's How Long: Walkin' Everywhere.
This take of Outskirts was recorded live in 1987: Every Mornin'.
Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor solo:
Greg's solo album, Gone, was referred to by Greg himself as a "largely ignored masterpiece". It's an AMAZING record. It's soul-honey. Here are a few clips: All Our Heroes: Any other way?, Blue Star: No fear, White Marble Ganesh: miracle, Hare Krishna, Star Of The Show: love, and the hidden track: silence, fire&water.
Jim Cuddy's solo album is now out, here are some clips if you want to know what it's all about: Everybody Cries: Everybody, Cries, Whistler: burned, and my personal favourite, Too Many Hands falsetto, history. The first track, Second Son, was inspired by Jim's older brother and is about Greg, according to an interview with Jim. Here are a couple of clips: light, afraid.
** Some of these sounds are kind of long and can take a while to download. Please be patient, good things come to those who wait :o)
Special thanks to my cousin for her help and her technology, without either of which these wouldn't be here.