Diamond Mine (Blue Rodeo album)

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Diamond Mine is the second album by Blue Rodeo, released in 1989. It was recorded in 1989 at the Donlands Theatre in Toronto and mixed at the Kingsway Studio in New Orleans.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>Template:Rp<ref name="Barclay">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp It is the last Blue Rodeo album to feature original drummer Cleave Anderson and includes several instrumental interludes by Bob Wiseman on the majority of versions. Diamond Mine was the second best-selling Cancon album in Canada in 1989.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The band had decided to work with Malcolm Burn on the album after hearing the album Red Earth by Crash Vegas, which had been formed a year earlier by singer-songwriter Michelle McAdorey and Blue Rodeo member Colin Cripps.<ref name="Barclay" />Template:Rp They hired Burn in December 1988, and set up a temporary recording studio at the abandoned Donlands Theatre in the east end of Toronto for its "roomy acoustics", in part inspired by the acoustics of The Trinity Session by the Cowboy Junkies.<ref name="Barclay" />Template:Rp The recording was then mixed at the New Orleans studio of Daniel Lanois.<ref name="Barclay" />Template:Rp

While touring to support the album in 1989, the band's manager John Caton quit abruptly as a result of a heart condition, effectively ending the label Risque Disque as well.<ref name="Barclay" />Template:Rp The band hired Danny Goldberg as their new manager.<ref name="Barclay" />Template:Rp

Jim Cuddy states that of all the Blue Rodeo albums, Diamond Mine has the "most honest expression of musical interest".<ref name="Barclay" />Template:Rp Keelor has stated that in retrospect, the album has a "muddy, confused" sound.<ref name="Barclay" />Template:Rp

Track listing

Template:Track listingTemplate:Track listing For example, see the 1989 Australian releases by WEA on LP (256268-1) and cassette tape (256268-4). Some editions of the album show the truncated tracklist on the back cover, but actually contain the full version.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personnel

Blue Rodeo

• Cleave Anderson – drums
• Jim Cuddy – guitar, vocals, bongos
• Bazil Donovan – bass, bongos
• Greg Keelor – guitar, vocals, bongos
• Bob Wiseman – piano, organ, bongos, accordion, the grinder

Additional personnel

• Malcolm Burn – production, mixing
• Blue Rodeo – production, mixing
• Zimbie – engineering (all except "Diamond Mine" and "Now and Forever")
• Doug McClement – engineering assistance, engineering ("Diamond Mine" and "Now and Forever")
• Mark Lambert – engineering assistance
• Brad Ormsby – engineering assistance
• Brant Scott – production assistance
• Mark Howard – mix engineering, bongos

Chart performance

Chart (1989)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Country Albums	2
Canadian RPM Top Albums	4

Awards

Blue Rodeo won the Juno Award for Group of the Year in 1990 despite neither the album or any song from it being nominated for an award.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>