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Canadian country rock band

Blue Rodeo is a Canadiancountry rock band formed in in Toronto, Ontario.

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They have released 16 full-length studio albums, four live recordings, one greatest hits album, and two video/DVDs, along with multiple solo albums, side projects, and collaborations.^[1]

History

High school friends Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor began playing music professionally together after completing university.

They put together several bands without commercial success in the late s, releasing a single as Hi-Fi's in

Cuddy and Keelor moved to New York City in the early s to further their music careers. There, they met keyboardist and fellow Canadian Bob Wiseman, who, at that time, was working as a producer.

Upon returning to Toronto in the summer of , the trio decided to form a band. The name "Blue Rodeo" had already been chosen for the new group when they met former David Wilcox drummer Cleave Anderson and asked him to join.

Anderson, in turn, recomme