L.A. Beat

Devin Cuddy returns to Lethbridge after about a year when he brings his band to the Geomatic Attic, Jan. 27.

“ We’ve been touring a lot this year. Everywhere but Lethbridge I guess,” said Cuddy, taking a brief break after spending the Christmas season performing on the Holiday Train with his dad Jim Cuddy’s band Blue Rodeo.

“It was very cool. I played from Montreal to Vancouver raising money for food banks,” he said, adding he enjoyed spending time with his dad on the Holiday Train.

“That was my first time on the train. He’s done it before. He joined the train for the Calgary to Vancouver leg. It was nice being on the train with him. It was more relaxed,” he continued.

 The younger Cuddy embarks on another tour with his band and Peter Garvey in mid January. They released an Irish jig they played together to announce the tour dates. But that doesn’t mean Cuddy will abandon piano powered boogie woogie and blues for old school country on his next album.

“It was a song I‘d been sitting on for a while. We thought it would be a fun way to announce the tour dates. But I don’t really play mandolin. It ’s something that occurs to me, but it isn’t something I usually do,” he said.

 He is beginning the writing process for his the follow up to his popular second CD “ Kitchen Knife,” which he noted won’t be out until the end of 2016 at the earliest.“It will be more rock and roll than country, but the songs haven’t really taken shape yet,” he said, noting he likes to test new material on audiences before recording them. Playing them live helps shape their sound.

“That and audience response. So there will be  new material. That’s not to say you’ll be guinea pigs, but  we‘ll be trying some new stuff,” he said.
 He is pleased with how well audiences responded to  “Kitchen Knife.”

 

“It’s definitely done great. It got played on college radio and on CBC. People have responded to it,” he said.
He will be bringing back band mates guitarist Mike Tuyps, bassist Devon Richardson and drummer Sly Juhas.

“ Sly has been with us for a couple of months so he will be new to you. These are all guys from Toronto, who I’ve played with and made music with,” he said.

 He will be winding down the tour in Lethbridge.
“We’ll be playing around B.C first and come back through Lethbridge,” he said.
“We’ll be playing a fun rock and roll show and  having a good time, playing some new stuff and revisiting older material,” he said.
 The Devin Cuddy band play the Geomatic Attic at 8 p.m., Jan. 27 Ticket are $32.50.