Palace of Gold (2002)
Artist:
Blue Rodeo
Album Number: 11
Release Date: 04/13/04
Label: Rounder Records
Number of CDs: 1
Type: Studio
Song Listing
*Bonus tracks on US release
This is the US version of Palace Of Gold. It contains three (3) additional tracks not found on the Canadian release. These are The Railroad (original by Lee Hazlewood), You're Everywhere, and Bad Timing - all three recorded live in Kitchener, ON on February 19, 2003.
Canadian Version available
here.
Click the song title for lyrics and windows media icon to listen
Fan Comments and Reviews
About the album
Jim Cuddy is leaning back on couch in the middle of the studio. He is explaining to the two sax players in front of him the kind of feel he'd like to hear them add to the song. The engineer pushes play on the huge recording console and a brand-new hard driving track comes blasting out of the speakers. While the horn players improvise over the playback, Greg Keelor walks around the room with a guitar slung over his shoulder trying out a few riffs of his own. Cuddy suggests that the horns play a simple phrase that will help push the rhythm of the song along while Keelor comes up with four notes that makes the song's chorus stand on its toes. The horn players move into the isolation booth (actually a walk-in storage closet with a fridge and another couch) and begin laying down their parts. Within an hour the whole process is done and "Walk Like You Don't Mind," soon to be a concert favourite of Blue Rodeo fans, is complete.
It's 2002 and clearly the creative team of Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor still has a fire burning inside of them. They have already been heralded as one of the finest songwriting duos to emerge from Canada and with Palace Of Gold (their 9th studio recording) they have challenged even their own notion of what Blue Rodeo is.
"Wherever we were with the last studio record, we were done with that," Cuddy told Maclean's Magazine earlier this summer. "We needed to attempt something we weren't sure we could accomplish."
Continued...
Album Credits
BLUE RODEO:
Jim Cuddy - Vocals, Guitar, Wurlitzer
Greg Keelor - Vocals, Guitar
Bazil Donovan - Bass
Glenn Milchem - Drums
James Gray - Piano, Organ, Wurlitzer
Bob Egan - Pedal Steel Guitar, Mandolin, Guitar
PRODUCED BY: Blue Rodeo
RECORDED BY: Nick Holmes except ;"Tell Me Baby;" recorded at
The Farm by Ian Osborne
MIXED BY: Blue Rodeo Nick Holmes
RECORDED MIXED AT: Logan St. Studios, Toronto
MASTERED BY: Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound
The Bushwhack Horns:
Bryden Baird - Trumpet, French Horn, Flugel Horn
Stephen Donald - Trombone
Chris Gale - Baritone Sax
Richard Underhill - Alto & Baritone Sax
The Planet Soul Strings:
Violins - Anne Lindsay, Jayne Maddison, Ron Mah, Adele Armin, Wendy Rose,
Norman Hathaway
Violas - Claudio Vena, Dan Blackman
Cellos - Richard Armin, Winona Zelenka
Background Vocals:
Molly Johnson (appears courtesy of EMI Music Canada), Laura Hubert
Vibraphone: Paul Aucoin
HORN ARRANGEMENTS: R. Underhill, The Bushwhack Horns &
Blue Rodeo except Find A Way To Say Goodbye &
Cause For Sympathy by R. Underhill
STRING ARRANGEMENTS: Anne
Lindsay & Blue Rodeo
BOOKING AGENTS:
Canada - Kay White at Trick or Treat Agency (905) 831-9191
US - Jeremy Holgersen at The Agency Group (212) 581-3100
MANAGEMENT: Susan de Cartier for Starfish Entertainment
(416) 588-3329
All songs by Keelor/Cuddy.
All songs published by Thunderhawk Music.
For correspondence and touring information write to us at:
PO Box 65266, 358 Danforth Ave., Toronto, ON M4K 1N0
Web Site: www.bluerodeo.com
Mailing List:
www.bluerodeo.com/br/maillist.html
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Us
Thanks To...
Chris, Michael, Colin, Rob, Sally, Joanna, Howie, Robin,
Barney, Black Stokes, my beautiful, supportive family, Devin, Emma & Sam,
and special love & thanks to Rena. For the ever elegant & inspiring Kate,
Travis & Joanne, Dallas & Amanda, Bear & Snake, Rick & Tara White, Nick &
Wendy Boothman, Ian Osborne, Critter, Big Jim Keelor & as always, Dr. B.T.
ohms. Justine Fitzgerald, Suzie Ungerleider, Luke Doucet, Faythe and Rael
Donovan, Dwayne Donovan, Eva Reid. Kevin, Charlie, Willa, Anne, Lesley,
Elizabeth Syrett, Albert Milchem, The Swallows. Jerry & Greta, Rob & Mike,
Kevin & Claudia, little Sebastien, Dr. J.P., Eden Hall, Jeff & Doug Renaud,
Steve Ketchen, Stratochief. Amy & Larry, Beth and Al, Mom & Bud, Jane St.
Clair, Julie Penner, Melissa Greiner, Alex & Jack, Pete Hudson, Ken Friesen,
Jack Fice & Trina Shoemaker.
Thanks to those who help us along the way: Our Crew:
Todd, Rich, Mike O., Barry, Sean, Jake, Mike F. & Andy; Kay, Barb, Anne L.,
Richard, Paula, Jeremy at The Agency, Bob at EC1, Mike Balogh, All the
folks at Warner (new and old), Nick, Kevin, Vishal, Danielle, Jude Susan.
Special thanks to Dave Tollington.