Album Reviews

Master songsmith Ron Sexsmith still forging own path with songs of love and life

The Canadian singer-songwriter is on his 17th album and while large commercial success has evaded him, his turn of lyrical phrase and innate melodic sensibilities make his folksy pop songs always worth listening to

Ron Sexsmith: no bells, whistles or grandiose statements – just simple tales of love and life from a master craftsman. Picture: Ross Gilmore

Ron Sexsmith, The Vivian Line (Cooking Vinyl)

Seventeen albums released in over three decades and still Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith manages to evade the kind of commercial crossover success that lesser talents have enjoyed for years. We have given up asking what it is that separates the creative ne’er-do-wells from Sexsmith who, despite enthusiastic nods throughout his career from Elvis Costello, k.d. lang, Rod Stewart, Michael Bublé and Coldplay, continues to forge a relatively solitary ...