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	Ron Sexsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ron Sexsmith's is not a talent that reaches out and grabs you by your heartstrings or your groove meter or any of the other kneejerk response mechanisms.
		And there's Sexsmith's voice: a grainy tenor that seems to rise with great, languorous ease from his throat and float around the note, then tumble, like an afterthought, over the edge of his mouth.
		Sexsmith's guitar, like his singing style, is limited in scope but fabulously nuanced; the brief, quiet solo on "Secret Heart," a melancholy meditation on tough guys from his debut collection, glistened with a rare blend of elegance and earthiness.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/06-26-97/REX/RON_SEXSMITH.html (388 words)

	Reviews of Ron Sexsmith (self-titled), Starflyer 59 \| Silver Album, and General Motors Stereos
		Sexsmith then settled down, and is now the proud father of two children, Christopher, 9, and Evelyn, 5.
		Sexsmith admits that the album consists mainly of stripped-down ballads.
		Sexsmith is right at home in this company, and has a bright future.
	www.cdshakedown.com /072695.htm (894 words)

	Ron Sexsmith - dublin music - dublin rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ron Sexsmith came on the music scene in 1995 with his debut album, Ron Sexsmith revealing a writer of rare sensitivity and melodic ability.
		Sexsmith is celebrating the released of his sixth album, Receiver this year and brings a full band with him for his concert in The Village.
		Ron Sexsmith was born and raised in the Niagara Falls area and started his first band in his teens.
	www.dublinks.com /index.cfm/loc/16/pt/0/spid/D334C98F-862D-4197-A21F135739E4C703.htm (318 words)

	Varsity Arts & Culture -- Ron Sexsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sexsmith writes about everything from a visit to a cemetery on a sunny day with his son, to a clown advertising a car wash and giving away free balloons on a roadside, to his disapproval of an unfaithful man.
		Sexsmith has a way of telling stories with his smooth, clear voice that captures the eerie and uncanny quality of a seemingly common situation.
		Sexsmith has waited patiently for people to notice the value of his work, and Other Songs should prove to be the beginning of a fruitful music career.
	www.varsity.utoronto.ca /archives/118/dec10/review/ron.html (890 words)

	Ron Sexsmith Reviews
		Sexsmith's voice is a marvel, recalling Tim Hardin's airy croon wrapping itself around deceptively simple lyrics.
		Sexsmith is among the latter, simply because he writes great songs.
		And Sexsmith's voice is gorgeous: warm and still, dry and quivering, trembling and mournful (not unlike young Buckley's croon); technically limited, perhaps, but infinite in implication.
	www.iq451.com /music/ron-sexsmith.htm (619 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts reviews \| Ron Sexsmith
		Sexsmith has won acclaim from his peers for his songwriting skills, but his unassuming nature and warm melodies have yet to make an impression on the record-buying public.
		Sexsmith finds a new, fleeting confidence in the second-hand melody, his body stretching as he reaches the high notes.
		Sexsmith may like a few more fans and he certainly deserves them, but first he needs to love himself a whole lot more.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,855677,00.html (378 words)

	DIG Internet Radio - Ron Sexsmith Hoping For Coldplay Magic
		Sexsmith's latest album Cobblestone Runway, soon to be released in Australia, features Coldplay's Chris Martin as guest vocalist on one song and Sexsmith is about to support the band on fourteen shows on its latest US tour.
		While in London early last year, Sexsmith started demo-ing some songs with Terefe for a proposed new album and after five days of recording (resulting in twelve songs being produced) it became apparent that there might be a whole album of material.
		As Sexsmith prepares to head off on his support gigs for Coldplay he reveals that he is trying to organise a tour (preferably with his Canadian band) to Australia before mid-year.
	www.abc.net.au /cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?/dig/stories/s766438.htm (814 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Ron Sexsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ron Sexsmith has very angelic face and has a voice to match; in one minute you feel like the man is going to break into tears and in the next moment he has you the listener feeling like you will break down with him.
		The release of this the first album by “Ron Sexsmith” was a long journey that had started in December 1987 when “Ron” had not long moved to “Toronto”; he went to see producer “Bob Wiseman”; he took him to a tiny basement studio to record a 4 track demo tape.
		“Ron Sexsmith” has very angelic features and his voice matches his appearance, in one minute you feel like the man is going to break into tears and in the next he has you the listener feeling like you will break down with him.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001Y6P (1479 words)

	Speaking With The Angels - An Interview with Ron Sexsmith - a Feature of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Their names are Grand Opera Lane, Ron Sexsmith, Other Songs, Whereabouts and Blue Boy' This night, he and his band played a selection culled from all of these records, and teased us with a snippet of Destiny's Child's “Survivor.” His lyrics are poetic and his guitar playing is beautiful.
		Ron Sexsmith has been making records for what seems like the best part of my life, and each album has improved on its predecessor.
		Sexsmith: I had a very watered down religious upbringing so I've thought a lot about it over the years and came up with my own conclusions.
	www.tollbooth.org /2002/features/rsexsmith.html (1074 words)

	Ron Sexsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ron Sexsmith has two people to thank for saving his debut album and, quite possibly, his career: Elvis Costello and Bob Dole.
		After the release of Ron Sexsmith in 1995, it was Costello who led the critical championing of the simple beauty of Sexsmith's songs--Elvis having been slid an advance copy of the album from producer Mitchell Froom.
		Meanwhile, Interscope in Los Angeles reassigned Sexsmith to new people in the company "who understood more what I was trying to do," unlike, ironically, the AandR man who got Sexsmith his Interscope deal and hooked him up with producer Froom--but who didn't like the spare airiness they came up with on Ron Sexsmith.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1997/072497/music1.html (477 words)

	spinART records : Ron Sexsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ron Sexsmith may not have been born to be a rock star, but he was certainly programmed to craft lovely pop songs from an early age.
		Through much of the early '90s, Sexsmith worked as a courier, wandering the streets of Toronto for eight hours a day, in which he had plenty of time to look inward.
		After just a few months as a staff writer, Sexsmith had put together enough well-crafted demos to convince the powers that be that he deserved a recording deal as well-which led to the release of his self-titled 1995 debut.
	www.spinartrecords.com /site/bandpage.php?id=43 (544 words)

	Songoose.com - Ron Sexsmith, Retriever Review
		One might say that Ron Sexsmith's 2002 release, Cobblestone Runway, was a breakthrough -- his pioneering embrace of electronica created a noticeable separation from the ever expanding pack of plaintive singer/songwriters.
		Within the confines of the album, Sexsmith is able to provide the listener with subtle variety, ranging from the satisfying shuffle of "Not About to Lose" to the driving pop-rock of "From Now On", and even to the 70's soul of "Whatever it Takes".
		His aptitude for consistently pushing the boundaries of each album's sound, all the while remaining true to his earnest, intimate songwriting craft, has not only begun to define Sexsmith's career -- it is further illustration that he is one of the best singer/songwriters of his generation.
	www.songoose.com /cd/sexsmith_retriever.html (219 words)

	Other Songs: Ron Sexsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		, the sophomore effort from Canadian songwriter Ron Sexsmith, that word would be "tenderness." Sexsmith creates songs that define their own context by their excellence of craft and the honesty and grace with which they express his depth of emotion.
		In fact, Sexsmith's songs don't make a claim at all; they simply speak in a gentle, unobtrusive language from the terrain he inhabits as a writer and as a man. But it's a big land full of wide-open country and there's room for all of us inside it.
		Whether he is addressing the need for his protagonist's inner healing and his need to express and receive love, or relating the mystery of an 8-year-old boy who exists only as an epitaph in a cemetery, he does so with reverence.
	www.metrotimes.com /music/rr/17/rr41_1.html (418 words)

	Whereabouts (Ron Sexsmith) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ron's great gift for songwriting is the only thing that holds this album together, and he is so good at the game it makes it a satisfying, inspiring album to listen to.
		Ron Sexsmith is definitely one of Canada's musical treasures and it's quite unfortunate he hasn't gained more exposure in Canada or abroad.
		Ron is one of the few musicians in todays music who write from the heart and always have something important to say.
	johnkeyes.com /a/B00000J2TT-whereabouts.html (1008 words)

	Tower Records - Whereabouts - Ron Sexsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sexsmith's style harkens back to the fragile folk-rock of Tim Hardin (especially vocally) and the artful pop constructions of Brian Wilson.
		Thanks to Sexsmith's wide-eyed innocence and lack of apparent irony, what might sound precious or cloying in less sincere hands comes off as both artful and heartfelt.
		CMJ (5/24/99, p.5) - "...Sexsmith's writing speaks as much about the more upbeat feelings of hope and empathy as they do the bleakest ones of sorrow and isolation....His delivery is casual and his points are finely drawn, but his way with words makes the mundane seem achingly poignant."
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1522817 (453 words)

	All-Reviews.com Music Review: Whereabouts by Ron Sexsmith
		With every record, it becomes clearer that Ron Sexsmith is one of the most compelling singers and songwriters of our time.
		On his 3rd cd, Sexsmith still has a shy and soft spoken Canadian reserve but he seems to have new confidence as a vocalist and musician.
		One Grey Morning starts with Sexsmith singing "you can count on many things to let you down" but moves on to Sexsmith saying one should look ahead at what can happen instead of back at what hasn't.
	www.all-reviews.com /music/whereabouts.htm (409 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: RON SEXSMITH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ron Sexsmith is so anti-cool that this may actually be one the coolest albums you hear.
		Ron Sexsmith is a giant in the sense that his talent and originality render him timeless and catapult him into a different category than most contemporary songwriters (along with Grant Lee Phillips as well).
		Ron Sexsmith must qualify as one of the masters of understatement in contemporary music.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001Y6P (928 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Sexsmith, Ron: Sexsmith sees his fan base growing
		Sexsmith, 35, is one of the finest young songwriters in pop today, but don't take my word for it.
		One suspects they might have been inspired by Sexsmith's dramatic lifestyle change -- he was a courier who turned into an international recording star -- and the challenges it posed for his partner and their kids, Christopher, 14, and Evelyne, 9.
		Sexsmith is currently writing songs for his fourth major-label album, and preparing to reissue his hard-to-find independent recording, Grand Opera Lane, which he hopes to make available through the Internet early next year.
	jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/S/Sexsmith_Ron/1999/10/22/749488.html (710 words)

	Ron Sexsmith: Blue Boy - PopMatters Music Review
		The charm of Canada's Ron Sexsmith has always been the seeming ease and simplicity of his lyrical storytelling, at once immediate, unadorned and direct.
		It's a shame, since many songs in Sexsmith's catalog surely will survive long after the current boy band and teen girl pop fads are but a distant memory.
		That is the magic of Sexsmith -- he captures simple thoughts and transforms them into more: "Love is always on the go, it never stays in one place / day by day it changes and it grows, but you always recognize its face".
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/s/sexsmithron-blueboy.shtml (1197 words)

	pastemusic.com: Retriever
		Ron Sexsmith understands this point better than most every singer-songwriter working today, that wondrously superfluous breed.
		Retriever marks Sexsmith’s fourth collaboration with Martin Terefe, the London-based Swedish producer who originally invited him into the studio to perform a duet (“Always”) with Shea Seger on her 2001 debut, May Street Project.
		From a writing standpoint Sexsmith is predictably ruthless, leaving your heart in bleeding shambles with his trademark bittersweet optimism.
	www.pastemusic.com /product/862 (446 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Ron Sexsmith
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Sexsmith often approaches Paul McCartney and Ray Davies in his ability to write memorable, emotionally complex pop tunes.
		Although Sexsmith is charming and self-effacing onstage and given admirable support by a three-piece band, the hourlong set is like listening to an evening of songwriter's demos.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117798365?categoryid=34&cs=1 (343 words)

	eye - MUSIC: Ron Sexsmith - 03.02.95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Despite the commercial pressures of a major-label release, Toronto singer/songwriter and guitarist Ron Sexsmith compromises none of his instincts on his self-titled Interscope/Warner debut.
		Seems Froom was knocked over by Sexsmith's way with a ballad, and immediately stashed him away in his house for two weeks making all-stripped- down ghetto blaster tapes.
		Their woodsy agenda resulted in a showdown with Interscope publishing chief Ronnie Vance, who had signed Sexsmith in early 1993 on the strength of his pop potential.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.02.95/MUSIC/mf0302.htm (482 words)

	Ron Sexsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ron's songs have been recorded by a wide range of artists, from Rod Stewart to Curtis Stigers, and opera singer Anne Sophie Van Otter.
		Ron sang "Bad Timing" with Blue Rodeo on their CMT special, "Blue Rodeo and Friends" in 2002.
		Bob Egan is reported to have 'sat in' with Ron Sexsmith prior to joining Blue Rodeo.
	www.bluerodeo.com /br/ron_sexsmith.html (764 words)

	Ron Sexsmith News
		Ron Sexsmith will join Coldplay for another part of their tour, starting May 24 and finishing it up June 13.
		Ron in Steve Nieve's opera «Welcome To The Voice» that was premiered June 9th, 2000 in New York City.
		Ron will do a solo tour with Aimee Mann He joins Aimee on March 5 in Berlin and wraps it up in London on March 12.
	www.xs4all.nl /~jslavik/ronnews.html (608 words)

	Ron Sexsmith: Cobblestone Runway (2002): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This album, along with Retriever, is why Ron Sexsmith and his music is absolutely essential for anyone interested in thought-provoking music.
		I've been a Ron Sexsmith fan for a long time and was so excited about the release of this album and picked it up as soon as it was available.
		This is the third Ron Sexsmith album I've had the pleasure to listen to.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/sexsmithron/cobblestonerunway (465 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Sexsmith, Ron: Sexsmith books shows, webcasts
		Singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith is hitting both the road and the information highway.
		Sexsmith's June 7 and 8 concerts in Chapel Hill, NC, will be webcast through the Digital Club Network (dcn.com).
		Sexsmith's new album, "Cobblestone Runway," is due for release this fall.
	jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/S/Sexsmith_Ron/2002/06/05/749475.html (224 words)

	MP3 music download website, eMusic
		While Ron Sexsmith has had little problem establishing his identity as a songwriter with the warm, compassionate intelligence of his lyrics, as a recording artist he's been a bit harder to pin down.
		While Sexsmith sounded decidedly awkward and self-conscious as a singer on his early albums, he's grown into a vocalist who delivers his material with a genuine and compelling commitment on his recent albums, and Retriever sounds like his most confident and accomplished set to date.
		And as a writer, Sexsmith is still gloriously one of a kind, a man who can write about love without sounding either cloying or bitter, and can document both the bright and dark sides of life with honesty, heart, and clear perception.
	www.emusic.com /album/10869/10869087.html (335 words)

	CTV.ca \| Ron Sexsmith poised to hit it big with new CD
		Sexsmith's career trajectory has ebbed and flowed since the mid-1980s when he started releasing albums in Toronto after years of touring the folk circuit.
		But then the hype seemed to fade and he was relegated to the back burner, where he was dubbed a musician's musician, meaning that while the likes of McCartney and Costello heaped on the compliments, mainstream audiences turned elsewhere for their music fix.
		Sexsmith says he's content with his slow and steady career approach.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1082205316400_5/?hub%3DEntertainment (631 words)

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