Blue Rodeo – Five Days in July

Five Days in July is the fifth – and most commercially successful – album by Blue Rodeo. The album, which AllMusic rated a 4 out of 5, went six times platinum in Canada, peaked at #3 on the country chart and #8 on the top album chart, and spawned six hit singles: "5 Days in May" (#4 top singles, #5 adult contemporary), "Hasn't Hit Me Yet" (#8 top singles, #8 adult contemporary), "Bad Timing" (#17 top singles, #15 adult contemporary), "Dark Angel" (#19 adult contemporary), "'Til I Gain Control Again" (#24 country), and "Head Over Heels" (#4 country, #33 top singles, #16 adult contemporary).

It took me a while to really like Five Days in July or at least to admit that I liked it as much as the early albums with Bob Wiseman, even though it makes virtually every best Canadian album list:

• Chart magazine: 34th in 1996, 29th in 2000, and 22nd in 2005
• Bob Mersereau's The Top 100 Canadian Albums: 13th
• Mar*Star newsletter: 33rd in 2011
• CBC Radio: 15th in its list of the 100 Greatest Canadian Albums

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Track Listing

1. "5 Days in May" (Greg Keelor, Jim Cuddy) – 7:12
2. "Hasn't Hit Me Yet" (Greg Keelor, Jim Cuddy) – 5:14
3. "Bad Timing" (Greg Keelor, Jim Cuddy) – 5:09
4. "Cynthia" (Greg Keelor, Jim Cuddy) – 4:40
5. "Photograph" (Greg Keelor, Jim Cuddy) – 4:10
6. "What is This Love" (Greg Keelor, Jim Cuddy) – 6:16
7. "English Bay" (Greg Keelor, Jim Cuddy) – 3:20
8. "Head Over Heels" (Greg Keelor, Jim Cuddy) – 4:01
9. "'Til I Gain Control Again" (Rodney Crowell) – 4:29
10. "Dark Angel" (Greg Keelor, Jim Cuddy) – 5:16
11. (Greg Keelor, Jim Cuddy) – 9:22
    1. "Know Where You Go"
    2. "Tell Me Your Dream"

Personnel

• Jim Cuddy – vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica
• Kim Deschamps – pedal & lap steel, mandolin, banjo
• Bazil Donovan – bass
• James Gray – keyboards, accordion
• Greg Keelor – vocals, guitar
• Glenn Milchem – drums
• Sarah McLachlan – vocals (on 6, 10, 11a, 11b), piano (on 10, 11b)
• Anne Bourne – cello (on 6, 7)
• Colin Linden – guitar (on 11b)
• Caroline Richardson – chimes, rainstick

• Blue Rodeo – Outskirts (album)
• Blue Rodeo – Lost Together (album)
• Blue Rodeo – Casino (album)
• Blue Rodeo – Lost Together (song)
• Blue Rodeo – Hasn't Hit Me Yet (song)
• Blue Rodeo – 5 Days in May (song)
• Blue Rodeo – Try (song)