“Try” by Blue Rodeo

Before Outskirts came out, "Try" was the song Toronto club crowds came to Blue Rodeo shows for, and they'd holler for it until the band sometimes played it two or three times in a night. It became the second single from the Canadian country rockers' 1987 debut, a Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor song with Cuddy singing lead and Terry Brown producing. Keelor later said the production sounds very much of its decade, as if Tears for Fears were backing them.

It took roughly four months to crack the RPM top 10, then went to No. 1 on the RPM country chart, No. 3 on adult contemporary and No. 6 on the main singles chart. At the 1989 Junos it won Single of the Year and Video of the Year, and it has stayed one of the band's signature songs.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.