Everyone loves Blackie & the Rodeo Kings...

BLACKIE & THE RODEO KINGS IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE BEST BAND IN THE COUNTRY.
*****Hamilton Spectator

This is the trio’s fourth release and it’s their best yet....these boys really kick ass in the songwriting, Linden sings about the blues, Wilson brings the sex and Fearing delivers the passion.
*****Uptown Magazine Winnipeg

For the uninitiated, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings is Tom Wilson, Stephen Fearing and Colin Linden. Every time these talented musical veterans enter a recording studio is cause for celebration, and the aptly named Let's Frolic is no exception.

As usual the Juno Award-winning roots-rockers throw a party with something for everyone including jangly, up-tempo '60s guitar rockers, haunting ballads, carefree bluesy romps, horndriven blue-eyed soul, radio-friendly pop and a dazzling duet featuring Fearing with country legend Pam Tillis on The Fools Who Can't Forget.

Word is things went so well they recorded 29 tracks and a follow-up will be released next year. I know I can't wait to frolic again.
****Winnipeg Free Press

The same love of music that brought the Rodeo Kings together has seen them grow into a national treasure.
**** Montreal Gazette

Fearing, Linden and Wilson affectionately known by fans as BARK, make some seriously wicked music together, music with heart, soul, grit and guts.
**** Guardian (PEI)

These musicians have accomplished an almost unimaginable feat, a truly distinctive and discrete collaborative work that embraces all their primal musical urges while embracing a graceful and instantly recognizable band aesthetic. Can’t wait for the next installment.
**** Toronto Star

14 songs breeze seamlessly through a catalogue of blues, folk and R&B styles. Fearing’s fragile The Fool Who Can’t Forget and Wilsons growling blues stomper Buried in Your Heart are standouts here.....and the production by Linden is first-class.
Calgary Sun

Try to find any roots-rock album from either side of the border with three better songs in a row than Linden’s Let’s Frolic, Fearing’s Loving Cup and Wilson’s I Give It Up Every Day.
Telegraph Journal


If you're getting a strong Band vibe from Canadian roots rock supergroup Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, it's no accident. Linden, Wilson and Fearing make their own distinct impressions, and it's cool that they don't let their egos compromise the songwriting process. Linden, who produced, gets plenty of bluesy guitar bits, while Wilson lays the baritone-voiced pub rock on thick. But if I had to play favourites, the real shivers come from Fearing's frail vocals and delicate songwriting.
NOW Magazine

The Juno Award-winning roots trio of Stephen Fearing, Colin Linden and Tom Wilson return with their fourth album, which features a mix of ballads (Fearing's duet with American country star Pam Tillis, The Fool Who Can't Forget), acoustic blues (the title track), up-tempo rockers (That's What I Like, Buried In Your Heart) and folkier tunes (Loving Cup). Daniel Lanois wrote the appropriately soulful House Of Soul, and this recording of it apparently moved him to tears. Linden produced the disc and shows his guitar mastery throughout, while Richard Bell's organ fills add extra depth to the songs. BARK are true songwriting and musical craftsmen, but don't take themselves too seriously, and that's reflected in the seemingly effortless way that their music floats from stereo speakers into your head.
Steve McLean - Chart Attack Canada

They give and they give and they give. In the past year, all three members of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings -- roots-rocker Tom Wilson, folkie Stephen Fearing and bluesman Colin Linden -- have issued top-notch solo CDs. Yet here they are again with Let's Frolic, their fourth BARK album in 10 years.

Actually, make that fourth and fifth -- the oddly matched trio cut enough material for two discs, and plan to issue the second half as Let's Frolic Again in mid 2007. And we gotta say, if it's as good as this instalment, BARK could easily find themselves on our best-of list two years in a row.

True to its title, Let's Frolic is a loose, rollicking affair on which the trio once again create music that is greater than the sum of their individual strengths. Highlights include the gritty Thing Called Love slide-blues of the title cut; the twangy folk-pop beauty of Loving Cup; the smoky horn-flecked Memphis soul of I Give It Up Everyday; the shimmery roots-pop of Heaven for a Lonely Man; the roots-rock of Buried in Your Heart; The Bandish October Lies -- and honestly, pretty much every other song on this disc.

If this isn't the Canadian roots-music album of the year, we don't know what is.

Can't wait to Frolic Again.
Winnipeg Sun

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