An older and wiser Blue Rodeo finally returns to St. Louis

Comments (0) By Matt Wardlaw Wednesday, Jun 9 2010

Whether it's that — or the Stax Records approach you took in 2002 with the Palace of Gold album, where suddenly Blue Rodeo has a horn section — this keeps me interested in Blue Rodeo. There aren't many bands where I can buy the albums for twenty years — and not buy at least one that makes me ask myself, What are these guys doing? I don't have that problem with Blue Rodeo albums.

[Laughs] That's pretty good, because yeah, we get these ideas, and you just hope that you can see it through to completion. This one was much more about the double record. I think we were quite clear on how we wanted to do this one, instrumentation- and production-wise. From there, it was about how to make four sides, because we all thought about it as vinyl almost right off the bat.

Dustin Rabin

Blue Rodeo: Far away, yet so close.

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Blueberry Hill

6504 Delmar Blvd.
University City, MO 63130

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Delmar/ The Loop

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Blue Rodeo
8 p.m. Thursday, June 10.
Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
$20. 314-727-4444.

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Looking back at your career to date, what songs stick out to you as the ones that were the most demanding to write?

That's a good question. "5 Days in May" [from 1993's Five Days in July] for me was demanding. I didn't get it quite right, and I wasn't quite sure what I was writing about to begin with. I had to change the tempo, and once I changed the tempo, I knew exactly what it was about. That was a watershed for me, for all of the rest of the songs on that record. Once I had that, I knew how to write the other songs. Also, any of the songs that I wrote on [1995's] Nowhere to Here, because that was the biggest struggle time for me and this band. Those songs — that's a difficult record for me to listen to, because it was a very fractious time in the band. I actually do like those songs — there's something interesting about what comes up when you're stressed, and you don't really know what you should be writing about.