Q&A: Jim Cuddy on Constellation, mortality and Blue Rodeo's future

It took Jim Cuddy a lifetime to write Constellation.
The Blue Rodeo co-founder displayed the empathy and melancholy of an old soul even on his band’s earliest recordings, but says the songs of loss on his fourth solo album could only have come from the experiences and emotional scars that are endured later in life.
“Even when I was 50 and everybody thought, ‘Oh, you’re old’ — that’s not old,” Cuddy, 62, told the Montreal Gazette from Toronto the da