he is half of one of the most celebrated
songwriting partnerships in Canada hi
I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with Jim Cuddy at Blue Rodeo about how
he first got into music and about the
artists he finds influential
ever become you
so let’s start by having you tell us a
bit about your background and how you
first decided on music as a career come
back there okay so my upbringing I lived
in a lot of cities when I was young I
got a guitar when it’s about 10 so it’s
always interested in music and I was
always interested in singing and writing
songs and it never occurred to me that
that was an unusual thing to do I went
to Queens University during those three
years I I really started to play a lot
and learn a lot and when I finished
Queens i decided i would take a year
maybe two years off and just to vote
them to music before i got back into the
mainstream of life now and you know
never got back into the main screen of
life
don’t we never in
coming on it
and what kind of music did you grow up
listening to and find influential to a
certain set almonds you know i mean i
was i was a child of the British
Invasion so I loved all those I loved
all the Beatles and Rolling Stones I
loved music and the music always
completely captured my attention so if
if I was talking to somebody and some
song came on that I liked I could no
longer talk to them I was and I would be
so distracted
when I first encountered Jackson Browne
and realized that not only was music
about being deliriously happy or being
being all wacked out or something was
also this kind of emotional mostly based
melancholic so then I really started
write songs in earnest and I was
teenager
I mean obviously you’ve been in the
music industry for a long time you’ve
seen a lot of changes tell us about the
changes that you’ve seen in the industry
and in your music yourself accessibility
to being able to make music is it’s been
an enormous benefit to people people not
paying for music has been a bit of it
not a bit it’s been a huge hardship for
people because I think that is as much
as you love the fact that your music is
heard by everybody it’s difficult to not
have to do another job and that I think
is ultimately going to affect this
generations bands that there won’t be a
lot of bands that can devote their life
to me because they won’t be able to make
and it turns of myself you know it took
me a long time to accept myself that I
was an artist I just felt that was such
a pretentious label and I I just
couldn’t say that about myself x-men and
he ever have trouble writing a boxer but
then I sort of found my way found a way
that I didn’t feel it was so egocentric
I was telling stories nose connecting to
people and and and now I think it’s
silly that I didn’t call myself for
Simon art stuff translating life
experiences into an art film and that’s
you know
songwriting partnerships in Canada hi
I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with Jim Cuddy at Blue Rodeo about how
he first got into music and about the
artists he finds influential
ever become you
so let’s start by having you tell us a
bit about your background and how you
first decided on music as a career come
back there okay so my upbringing I lived
in a lot of cities when I was young I
got a guitar when it’s about 10 so it’s
always interested in music and I was
always interested in singing and writing
songs and it never occurred to me that
that was an unusual thing to do I went
to Queens University during those three
years I I really started to play a lot
and learn a lot and when I finished
Queens i decided i would take a year
maybe two years off and just to vote
them to music before i got back into the
mainstream of life now and you know
never got back into the main screen of
life
don’t we never in
coming on it
and what kind of music did you grow up
listening to and find influential to a
certain set almonds you know i mean i
was i was a child of the British
Invasion so I loved all those I loved
all the Beatles and Rolling Stones I
loved music and the music always
completely captured my attention so if
if I was talking to somebody and some
song came on that I liked I could no
longer talk to them I was and I would be
so distracted
when I first encountered Jackson Browne
and realized that not only was music
about being deliriously happy or being
being all wacked out or something was
also this kind of emotional mostly based
melancholic so then I really started
write songs in earnest and I was
teenager
I mean obviously you’ve been in the
music industry for a long time you’ve
seen a lot of changes tell us about the
changes that you’ve seen in the industry
and in your music yourself accessibility
to being able to make music is it’s been
an enormous benefit to people people not
paying for music has been a bit of it
not a bit it’s been a huge hardship for
people because I think that is as much
as you love the fact that your music is
heard by everybody it’s difficult to not
have to do another job and that I think
is ultimately going to affect this
generations bands that there won’t be a
lot of bands that can devote their life
to me because they won’t be able to make
and it turns of myself you know it took
me a long time to accept myself that I
was an artist I just felt that was such
a pretentious label and I I just
couldn’t say that about myself x-men and
he ever have trouble writing a boxer but
then I sort of found my way found a way
that I didn’t feel it was so egocentric
I was telling stories nose connecting to
people and and and now I think it’s
silly that I didn’t call myself for
Simon art stuff translating life
experiences into an art film and that’s
you know
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