As luck would have it, I was invited along to the Blue Rodeo concert in Saskatoon last night. I only found out on Saturday that not only were they coming to town, but there was this extra ticket. I've always meant to get around to checking them out, and they do tour every year or two, but I just hadn't gotten to it.

I'm very glad I went. For those of you not familiar with the band, their music is sort of a mix of country, blues and rock, with some songs fitting nicely into one or two of those, and other songs that pretty much defy a handy categorization. They've got a lot of stuff that makes for good road music when you're driving through the Canadian prairie. They've got something like ten albums, have played together forever, and it shows.