yea...I know, the vid isn't that great..

It wasn't....I saw it early in the morning and it REALLY bored me... :shrug:

hehehe.....I like watching it because of chris..he just looks soo damn good in it!

mmmmm?

:lol: :lol:

 

Do you have any clue what we're talking about?? hahaha....we're talking the video..it wasn't that great.

 

Hi Josceline!! :)

can't see what Chris sees in this guy

 

but i guess it takes all tastes :)

Stars align to praise songwriter

 

 

Amanda Peet, Elton John and Kiefer Sutherland have joined growing fan base for Ron Sexsmith

 

PREVIEW

Who: Ron Sexsmith with Jill Barber

Where: Alix Goolden Performance Hall (all-ages)

When: Monday, 7 p.m.

Tickets: $25 in advance at Lyle's Place, Ditch Records and http://www.ticketweb.ca

 

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It seems like forever that Ron Sexsmith has been drawing high praise from his peers. Of late, the stream of compliments has turned into a geyser.

 

Sexsmith, 42, was championed early in his career by Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney and John Hiatt as a songwriter par excellence.

 

In recent months, more than a decade after he began making records, the praise for the gifted Toronto singer-songwriter has been off the charts, with a Hollywood actress, British musical icon and hot TV star all getting in on the Sexsmith group hug.

 

One of his songs was sung at the September wedding of screenwriter David Benioff and actress Amanda Peet, who is starring in TV's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

 

After meeting Peet and her beau following one of his shows at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, a wedding plan was hatched: Sexsmith would duet with Angela McCluskey of The Wild Colonials on his song, Gold in Them Hills, originally a duet between Sexsmith and Coldplay's Chris Martin.

 

It turned out Sexsmith couldn't make the New York date, because of his in-progress world tour, which stops Monday in Victoria at the Alix Goolden Performance Hall. McCluskey went ahead on her own, with Sexsmith's blessing.

 

"When we got an e-mail asking me to sing Gold in Them Hills, I thought it was kind of a strange choice to sing at someone's wedding," Sexsmith said yesterday from an L.A. tour stop. "The first line of the song is, 'I know it doesn't seem that way, but maybe it's the perfect day.' I have a lot more romantic songs that they could have sung."

 

Romantic or not, the music of the St. Catharines, Ont., native is uniformly excellent -- so much so that 24 actor Kiefer Sutherland and veteran singer-songwriter Lloyd Cole signed Sexsmith to their record label.

 

The pair's Ironworks Music imprint will distribute stateside Sexsmith's latest album, the stunning Time Being, beginning in January.

 

Elton John chimed in as well -- as he always does. Earlier this month, during his concert at Toronto's Air Canada Centre, John dedicated Someone Saved My Life Tonight to Sexsmith, whom he called one of his "favourite Canadian artists."

 

"It kind of came at a really good time," Sexsmith said. "We had so much bad luck in Europe on our tour -- I was robbed, and all sorts of stuff happened -- so when I heard about that it was a nice sort of pick-me-up. I'm a big fan of Elton. I was a member of his fan club when I was a kid. I just wish I could have been there when that happened."

 

Time Being, his eighth solo record, marked a significant shift in style for Sexsmith, who changed producers from the England-based Martin Terefe, producer of his previous two records, to Mitchell Froom, who handled production on his first three.

 

"These songs seemed a bit different to me, they seemed a little darker or something. I happened to talk to Mitchell one day on the phone -- we've always kept in touch -- and I missed hanging out with him. He really understood these songs and it was an opportunity to make a record with him where the playing field was a bit more level. In the early days, it was a master-pupil type thing. I wanted to make a record with him where I was more together as an artist."

 

He's no less together as a person, but even the most critically acclaimed artists are entitled to a little second-guessing.

 

Sexsmith is an all-too familiar breed: the much-lauded performer who struggles financially. After years of barely making ends meet, the nine-time Juno Award nominee -- who has had his songs covered by Feist, Rod Stewart, and k.d. lang -- still struggles, albeit contentedly.

 

"I've never been a big record-seller or anything, I've always had a kind of a cult following, which is nice," he said.

 

"There's an audience out there that, whenever I put out a record, they go and get it. I don't see any money from record sales. The labels spend so much money on them, there's no hope of me recouping on them unless I sell double-platinum or something.

 

"I rent a house in Toronto. I'm always looking for something like someone to cover one of my songs or getting a co-write on someone's album that could potentially get me a nest-egg. I would like to feel like, if I wanted to, I could stop for a few years. The way it's gone for me, I've always had to keep working."

 

http://www.canada.com/cityguides/victoria/story.html?id=b5c9611d-d3ce-4622-a8b6-97b83c513a2c&k=33435&p=2

Review | Ron Sexsmith

 

“Time Being”

 

3 stars

 

An impressive roster of heavyweights, from Paul McCartney to Coldplay’s Chris Martin, have sung the praises of Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith.

 

If that support hasn’t made much difference in his album sales in the U.S., it hasn’t affected him. Every year or two, Sexsmith modestly adds a dozen or so new tunes to a back catalog that’s an homage to those two old-fashioned staples of composition: melody and craftsmanship.

 

“Time Being” sounds even more unpretentious than usual, thanks to the return of Mitchell Froom, who produced Sexsmith’s first three albums.. His work is nearly transparent, putting nothing between the listener and Sexsmith’s gentle, folksy ruminations on time and its discontents.

 

As always, there are hints of the Beatles and Elvis Costello’s sweeter country side in Sexsmith’s melodiousness, while wry songs such as “Jazz at the Bookstore” owe not a little to Ray Davies.

 

But ultimately, like all great artists, Sexsmith is his own man. If you haven’t discovered him yet, there’s no better time than “Time Being.”

 

— Dan LeRoy, Special to The Hartford Courant

 

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/entertainment/16545721.htm

You can see it on youtube. I saw it months ago.:)

Type in:- Ron Sexsmith - Gold in Them Hills. Chris looks and sounds really good in it.