A$# 002 Blue Rodeo | Tremolo

Blue Rodeo have recorded many brilliant albums since Outskirts in 1987. Their 1997 effort Tremolo is one of my favourites.

The band’s approach on this album was to treat each recording session as a blank slate. From the liner notes: “‘For Tremolo, the band had no knowledge of the songs before we entered the studio,’ says songwriter-vocalist Jim Cuddy. ‘We just went in without a lot of rehearsal and cut a song a day.’”

The results are there to here. From the protest-song hit It Could Happen To You to the country-folkie opener Moon & Tree to the raucous closer Graveyard, Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor and their colleagues serve up 14 wonderful tracks. Other standouts include the ethereal Disappear and the melodic Fallen From Grace.

Track listing:
1. Moon & Tree
2. Shed My Skin
3. No Miracle, No Dazzle
4. Falling Down Blue
5. I Could Never Be That Man
6. Beautiful Blue
7. Fallen From Grace
8. Me & Baz
9. Disappear
10. It Could Happen To You
11. Dragging On
12. Brother Andre's Heart
13. Frogs' Lullaby
14. Graveyard