Artist: Ron Sexsmith
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Ron Sexsmith – Time Being
In Kinks classics such as “Days”, “This Is Where I Belong” and “Waterloo Sunset”, Ray Davies mined a vein of bittersweet wistfulness that other rockers have rarely approached. Until Ron Sexsmith. This may be heresy, but over the last decade, the Canadian tunesmith has crafted a body of work that not only echoes but rivals [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005
Sexsmith & Kerr – Destination Unknown
Ron Sexsmith and Don Kerr’s first joint recording features thirteen Sexsmith songs arranged, produced and recorded by Kerr. Key to the inviting character of this set is their harmony vocals, which luxuriate across the melodies of every number. Their sympathetic timbres bring to mind, and have clearly been informed by, the brother harmonies of the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Ron Sexsmith – Retriever
Perpetually undiscovered Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith had dabbled in everything from country to reggae to chamber pop before settling on Beth Orton-like folk-electronica for 2002′s fine Cobblestone Runway. Though his latest, Retriever, ditches the emphasis on beats for a more uptempo ’70s pop feel, the core aesthetic, centered around acoustic guitars, Beatlesque melodies and slight, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #43 Jan-Feb 2003
Ron Sexsmith – Cobblestone Runway
When this baby-faced Canadian teamed with producers Steve Earle and Ray Kennedy for 2001′s Blue Boy, the biggest surprise was the twangtrust’s minimal imprint on the music. Where Earle traditionally makes his presence felt on anything he touches, the producers approached the purity of Sexsmith’s songcraft as if it were a delicate vase. By contrast, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #34 July-Aug 2001
Ron Sexsmith – Blue Boy
“For every song you’ve ever heard, how many more have died at birth,” Canadian singer Ron Sexsmith wonders aloud on “This Song”, the leadoff track from his fourth album. Sexsmith must come by his curiosity about the fate of songs naturally. Thanks to record company politics, Blue Boy very nearly died at birth. But Sexsmith [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Ron Sexsmith – Not lookin’ for a hit
Ron Sexsmith concedes right off the top he is “beyond tired,” and it’s easy to understand why his internal clock might be frazzled. He’s in a hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia, killing time before a show after leaving his home base in Toronto that morning at 5 a.m., which came hot on the heels of [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Ron Sexsmith – Westbeth Theater (New York City, NY)
While the real world is tough on outsiders, they’ll always be welcomed in the land of thinking-person’s music. Toronto troubadour Ron Sexsmith has perfected the outside-looking-in perspective; stuck in my head is an image from “Pretty Little Cemetery” off his latest album, Other Songs. He and his son are sitting on a bus, watching the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #1 Fall 1995
Ron Sexsmith – Ron Sexsmith
The thing that grabs you first about Canadian singer/songwriter Ron Sexsmith is his voice. While you may think you hear a glimmer of someone you recognize, this sound is distinctly his own. His slow, supple vibrato and quirky phrasing are so captivating that it’s easy to be well into the album before even noticing the [...]
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