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"Try" was the second single released from Blue Rodeo's debut album, Outskirts. After years of trying to make it in punk, new wave and bar bands, in Toronto and New York City, Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor finally found their niche, upon returning to Toronto, in the Queen Street West scene. The song won Juno Awards for Single of the Year and Video of the Year in 1989. (Michelle McAdorey, later of Crash Vegas, is featured in the video.)
"Try" included in almost all lists of great Canadian songs: the 1992 Mar*Star poll (36th), all three Chart polls (7th in 1996, 14th in 2000, 42nd in 2005), CBC's 50 Tracks: The Canadian Edition (14th), Bob Mersereau's The Top 100 Canadian Singles (13th), and the 2011 Mar*Star poll (14th).
Tracy and I have seen Blue Rodeo perform quite a few times, as early as 1988 at the Highlands in Cambridge and as recently as last year (or, for Tracy, this February) at Kitchener's Centre in the Square, and this song has always been a concert favourite, although I personally prefer the songs on which Greg Keelor takes lead vocals, such as "Outskirts," the band's prior single.
| Hometown: | Toronto |
| Release Date: | October 1987 |
| Composer: | Greg Keelor, Jim Cuddy |
| Album: | Outskirts |
| Style: | Alt. country rock |
| Charts: | #6 Canadian Singles Chart; #2 Canadian Adult Contemporary; #1 Canadian Country Tracks |
| Mar*Star 125: | 36 |
| Mar*Star 150: | 79 |
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