Live music picks for WEDNESDAY MARCH 21 through SUNDAY MARCH 25, 2012 WEDNESDAY MARCH 21 / BLACKIE AND THE RODEO KINGS / MASSEY HALL / 178 VICTORIA / $35 - $55 / ALL AGES Blackie and the Rodeo Kings have been on the scene for more than 15 years, and will be bringing their King and Queens Live show to Massey Hall. They released the album Kings and Queens last year, and each of the disc's 14 tracks sees the band joined by [...]
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by nashawa Blackie and the Rodeo Kings are a band I've been listening to for years. While I'm not really a fan of the style of music (Americana, Country, Bluegrass, etc), I'm definitely a fan of quality songwriting and storytelling. My dad would always play songs by them on his guitar and I know most of the words to a lot of their songs by proxy in this way. They are extremely talented at painting pictures with music, and "Black Sheep" doesn't disappoint on this front either. They will also [...]
Other albums from 2011 that I really liked (in alphabetical order by artist): Kasey Anderson and the Honkies - Heart of a Dog Blackie and the Rodeo Kings - Kings and Queens The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow Dawes - Nothing is Wrong The Decemberists - The King is Dead Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots Foo Fighters - Wasting Light Glossary - Long Live All of Us Ha Ha Tonka - Death of [...]
Stephen Fearing is well used to successful collaborations, he is arguably best known as a founder member of Blackie and The Rodeo Kings , as a solo artist he's a multiple Juno Award winner with a impressive back catalogue of eight albums under his belt, this time around the Vancouver born artist who was raised in Dublin before returning to Canada in 1981 to pursue his musical career has teamed up with a fellow musician from Northern Ireland, now resident in Melbourne, Andy White , equally prolific White has recorded and [...]
When Colin Linden, Stephen Fearing and Tom Wilson came together as Blackie & The Rodeo Kings , they never intended the tip of the cap to Willy P. Bennett to result in a band, let alone a create a catalog that rivaled J.K. Rowling's in terms of output. It was nothing more than inspired artists reaching out to say thanks to an unheralded great, but over the last twelve years the trio has blossomed into one of Canada's finest roots outfits and their new release, Kings and Queens does nothing but justify that well-earned distinction. [...]
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings: Kings & Queens Blackie & The Rodeo Kings are a veteran Canadian Americana supergroup consisting of Colin Linden, Stephen Fearing, & Tom Wilson. They get even more super on their new CD Kings and Queens, where the Kings are joined by a different Queen on each of the album's 14 tracks. Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, Lucinda Williams, Amy Helm, Exene Cervenka, Cassandra Wilson, Patty Scialfa, Pam Tillis, and Sam Phillips are just a few who signed up [...]
Blackie and The Rodeo Kings - Canadian roots rock trio Colin Linden, Stephen Fearing, and Tom Wilson have corralled an impressive list of "gueens" including Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Roseanne Cash and Cassandra Williams for guest duets on their impressive new album...The "Canadiana" triumvirate has been a staple of the far north roots music scene for fifteen years, an original one-off collaboration that has resulted in five critically acclaimed albums and multiple Juno awards and nominations // Release : Kings and Queens (June 14) // [...]
Canadian roots-rock supergroup Blackie & the Rodeo Kings are returning with a new studio album. Kings and Queens is set for a June 14th release. This is a star-studded album, with a guestlist that reads like a who's who of roots music. Heavyweights Lucinda Williams, Roseanne Cash, and Emmylou Harris are among those who lend their ample talents to the project. Here's the track listing for the
The monthly Feel Bad for You comp from our friends at the altcountrytab.ca forums. Download the zipped comp for one week only , or until I remember to kill the link. 1. Dwight Yoakam - Blame the Vain Blame the Vain (2005) Some Dwight always hits the spot when you crave twang. 2. Dwight Yoakam - No Such Thing Population Me (2003) If twang craving still persists, chow down on some [...]
Originally published in March 2009 I can't tell their story better than they can... What started out as a tribute project to the late Willie P. Bennett , has evolved into one of the most entertaining Canadian roots super groups of all time, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings . After releasing the critically acclaimed High or Hurtin ' in 1996, Tom Wilson , Colin Linden , and Stephen Fearing , fresh off successful solo projects, found [...]
The mother of all comps. From our friends at AltCountryTab.ca . The Zipped download is good for one week only. Enjoy! The photo is from a family vacation near LaFollette, Tennessee. Kona the Chocolate Lab leads the chase, but Mikey the Boston Terrier in his personal flotation device will eventually get the tennis ball. I hope I am reincarnated as a dog and I get to spend my next life chasing tennis balls all day. 1. Ben Lee - Away With The Pixies.mp3 [...]
I can't tell their story better than they can... What started out as a tribute project to the late Willie P. Bennett , has evolved into one of the most entertaining Canadian roots super groups of all time, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings . After releasing the critically acclaimed High or Hurtin ' in 1996, Tom Wilson , Colin Linden , and Stephen Fearing , fresh off successful solo projects, found themselves drawn in by the chemistry between them and started writing songs that could only be expressed [...]
These JUNO award winners are throw backs to the late '90s alt-country movement or quite possibly the Outlaw Country movement made famous by Willie, Merle and Waylon. Listen: Better Off Alive Something's On My Mind Down By The Henry Moor (download or die) RIYL: late '90s alt-country, Willie Nelson , Merle Haggard or Waylon Jennings Further study: Website myspace Wiki [...]
Back story time for all of you new to Blackie and the Rodeo Kings . Colin Linden, Stephen Fearing, Tom Wilson decided to form a Canadian roots supergroup to bring the music of Willie P Bennett to the masses. Long story short, Willie P was a staple of the Canadian folk circuit in the later 60's and 70's - you can read more about him here - but essentially his style of music influenced a lot of the Canadian music that was eaten up in the 90's (the Skydiggers and BNL owe him a big [...]
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings are a Canadian roots supergroup made up of Tom Wilson, Stephen Frearing and Colin Linden. They recorded a 2 disc collection which they've released in two seperate parts. Vol 2 - Let's Frolic Again comes out in July. My first comparison I was set to make was to The Band. It should come as no surprise then that Garth Hudson is a guest on the record. For roots music that combines blues, folk, zydeco and 60's jam band this is as good as it gets. Buy songs from [...]
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