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Sexsmith's 2023 Album on Vinyl LP!
Half man, half melody Ron Sexsmith will release an album in 2023, entitled The Vivian Line. The first single is "What I Had in Mind." The Vivian Line is Ron Sexsmith's 17th album. It features 12 songs written and performed by Ron.
The who, what, where, why and how of the record are best explained by Ron himself: "The Vivian Line is a rural route right near where we live in Stratford (Ontario). Whenever we have to get out of the city we jump on The Vivian Line and it dumps us out onto the highway. I wondered about the name when we first moved there and thought it was intriguing... it sort of represents escaping from our old life in Toronto to this new phase we're in. And it's also like a portal to my old life when I have to get back there. I recorded it (The Vivian Line) with Brad Jones in Nashville. (Brad played bass on three of my earlier records Other Songs, Whereabouts and Blue Boy), and it's a very lush-sounding, almost baroque pop record. (A distant cousin of Whereabouts.) The songs were mostly inspired by this stage in life that I find myself in and trying to figure it all out."
Ron Sexsmith is one of Canada's most accomplished singer-songwriters. Born and bred in St Catherine's near Niagara Falls and currently resident in Stratford, Ontario, he has released 16 albums to date - Grand Opera Lane (1991), Ron Sexsmith (1995), Other Songs (1997), Whereabouts (1999), Blue Boy (2001), Cobblestone Runway (2002), Rarities (2003), Retriever (2004), Destination Unknown (2005, with Don Kerr, released as Sexsmith & Kerr), Time Being (2006), Exit Strategy of the Soul (2008), Long Player Late Bloomer (2011), Forever Endeavour (2013), Carousel One (2015), The Last Rider (2017) and Hermitage (2020). He has collaborated with the likes of Daniel Lanois, Mitchell Froom, Ane Brun, Tchad Blake, and Bob Rock. His songwriting appears on albums from Rod Stewart, Michael Bublé, k.d. lang, Emmylou Harris and Feist. Filmmaker Doug Arrowsmith made an acclaimed documentary about Ron in 2010 called Love Shines. In 2017 Ron published his first book, a fairy tale entitled Deer Life. Producer of The Vivian Line Brad Jones is a music producer, and power pop singer/songwriter. He has produced music for Josh Rouse, Cotton Mather, Chuck Prophet, Matthew Sweet, Imperial Drag, Jill Sobule, and Marshall Crenshaw.
Features
- 140g Vinyl LP
Selections
- Place Called Love
- What I Had in Mind
- Flower Boxes
- Outdated and Antiquated
- Diamond Wave
- Powder Blue
- One Bird Calling
- Country Mile
- This, That and the Other Thing
- A Barn Conversion
- When Our Love Was New
- Ever Wonder