Ron Sexsmith

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Ron Sexsmith
Ron Sexsmith
Chart placements
(preliminary)
Explanation of the data
Albums
Other songs
  UK 97 07/19/1997 (1 week)
Long player, late bloomer
  UK 48 03/12/2011 (3 weeks)
Forever Endeavor
  DE 86 02/15/2013 (1 week)
  UK 51 02/16/2013 (1 week)
Carousel One
  UK 100 04/11/2015 (1 week)
Hermitage
  CA 3 April 27, 2020 (... Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / provisional / 2020 where.)
Singles
Gold in Them Hills (feat. Chris Martin )
  UK 93 03/15/2003 (1 week)
Lo mismo que yo (If Only) (with the Alex Cuba Band )
  UK 52 11/06/2004 (2 weeks)

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

Ron Sexsmith

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
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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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: Germany - UK charts - Canada
  2. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Ron Sexsmith: From the funeral parlor to the life artist. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ https://www.nw.de/nachrichten/kultur/kultur/22758909_Ron-Sexsmiths-Seelenbalsam-aus-der-Einsiedelei.html
  4. ↑ https://www.frankenpost.de/deutschlandwelt/boulevard/Ron-Sexsmith-Vom-Trauerkloss-zum-Lebenskuenstler;art2794,7215135
  5. ↑ https://www.nw.de/nachrichten/kultur/kultur/22758909_Ron-Sexsmiths-Seelenbalsam-aus-der-Einsiedelei.html
  6. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/alben-der-woche-exsmith-o-brien-pimienta-1.4878208
  7. ↑ https://www.nw.de/nachrichten/kultur/kultur/22758909_Ron-Sexsmiths-Seelenbalsam-aus-der-Einsiedelei.html
  8. ↑ Ron Sexsmith returns with the new album HERMITAGE out now. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sexsmith, Ron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Catharines , Ontario , Canada