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Blue Rodeo's Bob Egan leaving band to work at Kitchener Public Library


Blue Rodeo’s pedal steel player Bob Egan is leaving the band for a job with the Kitchener Public Library.
The 60-year-old says it wasn’t an easy decision but that he couldn’t refuse an offer to help build up the community in his southern Ontario home.

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Egan is also a new dad with a 14-month-old son, he jokes that he’s “clean-shaven and wearing slacks for the first time in 25 years.”

Since 2002, Blue Rodeo has become one of my favorite groups. Ironically the group got its start in New York City when Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor , as expat Canadians, played regularly in New York City clubs. As a result of those roots they return fairly regularly to play in New York, either as Blue Rodeo or Jim Cuddy playing in a solo role. I rarely miss an opportunity to see them perform.

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Well at least it's not Jim Cuddy leaving.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the group has always effectively been a Cuddy-Keelor vehicle. The other musicians such as Packwood and even Egan were more or less peripheral.

  • Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone."
  • Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds.
  • Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location?
  • The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).

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