
Gord Downie
Gord Downie was a Canadian musician and writer. He was best known as the frontman for the band The Tragically Hip. Downie released solo albums including Introduce Yerself, which featured the popular song of the same name, Away Is Mine, and Lustre Parfait with Bob Rock. His popular songs include Useless Nights and Wolf’s Home. Downie appeared in the music documentaries The Tragically Hip - A National Celebration and Long Time Running.
Latest Release
- FEB 27, 2026 Live At 6 O'Clock

For his extracurricular adventures outside of The Tragically Hip, the late Gord Downie frequently turned to the Canadian indie-rock underground for inspiration, tapping the likes of Julie Doiron and The Dinner Is Ruined for his idiosyncratic, folk-oriented solo efforts. But when Downie joined forces with Toronto roots-rock outlaws The Sadies in 2014, their big-bang collision thrust both parties into the most raucous, untamed music of their careers. Live at 6 O’Clock was recorded across several summer-festival tour dates in support of their one and only album together, And the Conquering Sun, best represented here by a blistering version of the garage-battered rave-up “It Didn’t Start to Break My Heart Until This Afternoon,” which makes Downie’s wildest onstage wig-outs with the Hip seem staid by comparison. But even though Downie and The Sadies were technically in album-promo mode, they also used their limited stage time to dig deep into their record collections: Live at 6 O’Clock is teeming with corrosive covers of Neil Young and Who gems you never hear on classic-rock radio and cult favorites from Roky Erickson and The Gun Club, while also connecting the dots between what is arguably the first-ever hardcore song (The Stooges’ 1972 ripper “I Got a Right”) and the genre’s 21st-century torchbearers (Fucked Up’s skull-crushing “Generation”).
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About
- FROM
- Amherstview, Ontario, Canada
- BORN
- February 6, 1964
- GENRE
- Country