Colin Cripps

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Colin Cripps (born January 26, 1961) is a Canadian guitarist and record producer from Hamilton, Ontario. He’s a member of Blue Rodeo and the Jim Cuddy Band and has played with Crash Vegas and Junkhouse. Cripps has produced and played on albums for artists such as Kathleen Edwards, Bryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan, Jim Cuddy, The Headstones, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Oh Susanna, and Colin James, and he has also written music for films including Wrestling with Shadows and The Life and Death of Owen Hart.

In 2007 he performed with Bryan Adams on a BBC special celebrating the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and he played on Adams’ album 11 (released in 2008). He produced Kathleen Edwards’ Back to Me (2005) and Asking for Flowers (2008). Cripps has co-produced and played on Jim Cuddy’s solo records. He joined Blue Rodeo as a full member in 2013, helping the band release In Our Nature that October. In 2014 Blue Rodeo received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for lifetime achievement. Cripps released his first solo album, Stormy Northern Days, in 2013, and in 2015, with James Robertson as C and C Surf Factory, released the instrumental album Garage City.