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Ron Sexsmith (born January 8, 1964 in St. Catharines , Ontario ) is a Canadian songwriter.
Life
In addition to various jobs, Ron Sexsmith has always tried appearances in small clubs and bars. His voice and his qualities as a songwriter drew the attention of other musicians to him and finally brought him a record deal with a major label. Music critics are also consistently enthusiastic about his 1995 debut. And it stays that way mostly with the following albums. The musicians who count themselves among his fans are numerous and well-known: Chris Martin from Coldplay , Radiohead , Elvis Costello , Sarah McLachlan and Rod Stewart . Paul McCartney even invited him over spontaneously to get to know him personally and to jam with him.
After three commercially moderately successful albums, he ended the collaboration with Interscope Records due to personnel changes at the record label. His fourth album Blue Boy 2001, which was released on the indie label Cooking Vinyl , is twice as successful with 20,000 copies sold. Sexsmith explains in his 2003 interview that the major record company did not support his success very actively. B. hardly want to organize gigs in Germany. This wall is broken through again and again by die-hard fans, most recently by the American jazz guitarist and Grammy award winner Bill Frisell , who invited him to the Century of Song series at the RuhrTriennale , which he curated .
Ron Sexsmith is married for the second time and has two children, a son and a daughter. He lived in Toronto for many years and now has a house in Stratford, Ontario.
Music and lyrics
The first five releases up to and including Blue Boy are musically located on the line of melancholy folk pop . On the sixth album Cobblestone Runway from 2003 the producer further developed the sound with a synthesizer.
2004 Retriever pays homage to Johnny Cash , June Carter Cash , Bill Withers, and Elliott Smith .
Destination Unknown is a side project that Sexsmith released in 2005. These are songs that were recorded during the production of Retriever with his drummer Don Kerr.
On the 14-song album Hermitage , which was released on April 17, 2020, his earlier melancholy melodies and texts can only be heard peripherally; Instead, Sexsmith happily shows a lightness that was lacking in the work of the universally recognized songwriter to date. He played all the instruments on the album himself, Don Kerr only helped out with the drums. With the album he provides "material for the Great American Songbook", wrote Jakob Biazza in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Sexsmith has "long been part of the league of its great songwriting role models Ray Davies, John Lennon, Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman," wrote Thomas Klingebiel in his record review.
He has been playing cover versions and his own songs on his YouTube channel Rawnboy for many years .
Discography
Studio albums
year | title | Record label | producer |
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1991 | Grand Opera Lane | Ronboy Rhymes | Bob Wiseman |
1995 | Ron Sexsmith | Interscope | Mitchell Froom |
1997 | Other songs | Interscope | |
1999 | Whereabouts | Interscope | |
2001 | Blue boy | Linus Entertainment | Steve Earle |
2002 | Cobblestone Runway | Linus Entertainment | Martin Terefe |
2003 | Rarities | Linus Entertainment | |
2004 | retriever | Warner Canada | |
2005 | Destination Unknown | Warner Canada | Don Kerr |
2006 | Time Being | Warner Canada | |
2008 | Exit Strategy of the Soul | Yep Roc | |
2011 | Long player late bloomer | indigo | Bob rock |
2013 | Forever Endeavor | Cooking vinyl | |
2015 | Carousel One | Cooking vinyl | |
2017 | The Last Rider | Compass Records | |
2020 | Hermitage | Cooking vinyl |
Guest appearances
- Ane Brun - A Temporary Dive (2004) on the track "Song no. 6", released again on Ane Brun's album Duets (2005)
- Feist - The Reminder (2007) on the track "How My Heart Behaves"
- Michael Bublé - Crazy Love (2009) on the track "Whatever it takes"
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- ↑ a b Chart sources: Germany - UK charts - Canada
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Ron Sexsmith: From the funeral parlor to the life artist. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.nw.de/nachrichten/kultur/kultur/22758909_Ron-Sexsmiths-Seelenbalsam-aus-der-Einsiedelei.html
- ↑ https://www.frankenpost.de/deutschlandwelt/boulevard/Ron-Sexsmith-Vom-Trauerkloss-zum-Lebenskuenstler;art2794,7215135
- ↑ https://www.nw.de/nachrichten/kultur/kultur/22758909_Ron-Sexsmiths-Seelenbalsam-aus-der-Einsiedelei.html
- ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/alben-der-woche-exsmith-o-brien-pimienta-1.4878208
- ↑ https://www.nw.de/nachrichten/kultur/kultur/22758909_Ron-Sexsmiths-Seelenbalsam-aus-der-Einsiedelei.html
- ↑ Ron Sexsmith returns with the new album HERMITAGE out now. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
Web links
- Works by and about Ron Sexsmith in the catalog of the German National Library
- www.ronsexsmith.com Official website
- Long interview with RS from 2003
- Interview with RS from 2008
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SURNAME | Sexsmith, Ron |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian songwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1964 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Catharines , Ontario , Canada |