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BLUE RODEO

BLUE RODEO Palace Of Gold (Warner) Rating: NNN Rating: NNN


The news that Blue Rodeo was working with a horn section and strings carried the promise of a sonic rethink for Palace Of Gold, but there’s no daring attempt at reinvention here. It’s just another conservative application of the Blue Rodeo formula, in which the strings and brass serve primarily as embellishment for variations on the same five songs that Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor have been rewriting for years — there’s the swoon-inducing crooner, the finger-pointing indictment, the unconditional love ballad, the amorphous jam and the house-rocking rave. It seems like Blue Rodeo could use the input of the group’s other songwriters.

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