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Extrait d'une interview de Steve Earle (qu'on trouve sur Puremusic):
PM: Are there songwriters out there today, not ones we grew up with, that are turning you on, that make you work harder?
SE: Joe Henry is one. Ron Sexsmith, too. I know I'm gonna leave someone out that's really, really good. Julie Miller is really that good.
PM: She gets down to the nitty gritty.
SE: Julie Miller is just one of the best songwriters that I know, period. Let's see, who else. On a pure literary level, and I automatically go to that, I think those three are that good. There are a lot of people that just write really good tunes. The thing about Ron Sexsmith is that it's really easy to dismiss his work, because he's so strong a melody writer. Lyrically, he's as good or better than most good songwriters, but he has absolutely no peer melodically. No one is consistently writing good melodies the way that he is.
PM: I just had that conversation with my girlfriend yesterday, that when it comes to chord progressions, the melody over the progression, and the way the words are married to the melody, that you can't beat the cat.
SE: But I think that's the difference. I think Ron is literally writing melodies, and the chord changes are incidental and subservient to the melody. Whereas most of us grew up listening to the Beatles, and for us writing melodies works around the chord changes, that the melody is the thing that slides around the top of the chord changes. It may not even solidify until you're ready to commit it to tape.
PM: Ron's walking down the street writing a melody without a guitar in his hand.
SE: That's exactly what I mean, that's more how he does it. And that's what never stops for him. What never stops for me is language. But he's just a very melodical writer, and I think it's important to study how other people write and have written, don't dismiss Gilbert and Sullivan, or the tradition of greats that led up to the possibility of there being such a thing as Pop music. And then when it stopped being just Pop music and became literature again. Because it did start out as literature, songwriting began as literature. Then there was a period in the middle when it really wasn't. Certainly with the advent of Bob Dylan, it became literature again.
PM: Are there songwriters out there today, not ones we grew up with, that are turning you on, that make you work harder?
SE: Joe Henry is one. Ron Sexsmith, too. I know I'm gonna leave someone out that's really, really good. Julie Miller is really that good.
PM: She gets down to the nitty gritty.
SE: Julie Miller is just one of the best songwriters that I know, period. Let's see, who else. On a pure literary level, and I automatically go to that, I think those three are that good. There are a lot of people that just write really good tunes. The thing about Ron Sexsmith is that it's really easy to dismiss his work, because he's so strong a melody writer. Lyrically, he's as good or better than most good songwriters, but he has absolutely no peer melodically. No one is consistently writing good melodies the way that he is.
PM: I just had that conversation with my girlfriend yesterday, that when it comes to chord progressions, the melody over the progression, and the way the words are married to the melody, that you can't beat the cat.
SE: But I think that's the difference. I think Ron is literally writing melodies, and the chord changes are incidental and subservient to the melody. Whereas most of us grew up listening to the Beatles, and for us writing melodies works around the chord changes, that the melody is the thing that slides around the top of the chord changes. It may not even solidify until you're ready to commit it to tape.
PM: Ron's walking down the street writing a melody without a guitar in his hand.
SE: That's exactly what I mean, that's more how he does it. And that's what never stops for him. What never stops for me is language. But he's just a very melodical writer, and I think it's important to study how other people write and have written, don't dismiss Gilbert and Sullivan, or the tradition of greats that led up to the possibility of there being such a thing as Pop music. And then when it stopped being just Pop music and became literature again. Because it did start out as literature, songwriting began as literature. Then there was a period in the middle when it really wasn't. Certainly with the advent of Bob Dylan, it became literature again.
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Excellent! merci pour ce lien... je suppose que c'était en septembre 2004... j'étais allé le voir en concert à cette époque au Nouveau Casino...
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dans cinq minutes, vous pouvez écouter des extraits du nouveau Sexsmith! Il est à tomber.
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D'après les prévisions de V2, il semble que Sexsmith sorte déjà un nouvel album en octobre!
Allez, une petite vidéo pour se faire plaisir: Right About Now
Allez, une petite vidéo pour se faire plaisir: Right About Now
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Merci Hugues.Vraiment bien.Je ne connaissais pas Ron Sexsmith.J'ai le souvenir de l'avoir vu,il y a longtemps,dans un Taratata.Je ne suis pas sùr mais je crois qu'au cours de cette emission,il avait joué un titre avec les Innocents. Hier j'ai acheté Uncut.Il y avait un cd gratuit "Radio Bob".Il s'agit d'une selection de 15 titres que Dylan programme dans son emission de radio.On y trouve un titre de Sexsmith and Kerr(le batteur Don Kerr)"Raindrops in my coffee".Bob passe egalement "Secret Heart". Pour le fun,les autres artistes sur cette compile sont:Dave Alvin,Hank Williams,Jenny Lewis with the Watson twins,Sonny BOY Williamson,Bukka White,Laura Cantrell,Blind Willie Johnson,the Detroit Cobras,Robert Johnson,Mary Gauthier,Elmore James,John Prine,Muddy Waters et Richard and Linda Thompson.
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BOOM BOOM a écrit:Merci Hugues.Vraiment bien.Je ne connaissais pas Ron Sexsmith.J'ai le souvenir de l'avoir vu,il y a longtemps,dans un Taratata.Je ne suis pas sùr mais je crois qu'au cours de cette emission,il avait joué un titre avec les Innocents. Hier j'ai acheté Uncut.Il y avait un cd gratuit "Radio Bob".Il s'agit d'une selection de 15 titres que Dylan programme dans son emission de radio.On y trouve un titre de Sexsmith and Kerr(le batteur Don Kerr)"Raindrops in my coffee".Bob passe egalement "Secret Heart". Pour le fun,les autres artistes sur cette compile sont:Dave Alvin,Hank Williams,Jenny Lewis with the Watson twins,Sonny BOY Williamson,Bukka White,Laura Cantrell,Blind Willie Johnson,the Detroit Cobras,Robert Johnson,Mary Gauthier,Elmore James,John Prine,Muddy Waters et Richard and Linda Thompson.
C'est bien la première fois qu'on me fait regretter d'avoir raté un Taratata!
- Couâââ?? T'as raté Taratata???
justement je disais l'autre jour - ici sur ce forum où j'ai franchi la barre des 5000 mille messages pour le plus grand pl aisir de tous - que Dylan aurait fait un parfait Highway 61 avec le son d'Elmore James...
Sinon, Ron Sexsmith, Laura Cantrell, Mary Gauthier: il a des goûts de chiottes, ce mec!
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Je viens de consulter le site de Taratata.J'ai une mémoire d' .Le 27/02/1996(effectivement ça date)pour une diffusion le 31/03/1996 Ron Sexsmith a interpreté à Taratata"Worlds we never use" et avec les Innocents"i will" et "Julia"(des Beatles?)Que faisais tu donc le 31/03/1996?Hugues?
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BOOM BOOM a écrit:Je viens de consulter le site de Taratata.J'ai une mémoire d' .Le 27/02/1996(effectivement ça date)pour une diffusion le 31/03/1996 Ron Sexsmith a interpreté à Taratata"Worlds we never use" et avec les Innocents"i will" et "Julia"(des Beatles?)Que faisais tu donc le 31/03/1996?Hugues?
ça existait déjà Taratata en 96? Je ne connaissais pas encore Sexsmith à l'époque, moi je l'ai découvert en 2000, en achetant Whereabouts. Ce que j'enregistrais à l'époque, ce sont les concerts de Nulle Part Ailleurs, j'en ai trois cassettes vidéo couvrant les années 95-97.
J'ai des bons trucs: du Wilco, des Cramps, ce fameux L7 à Cannes également, etc
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EXIT STRATEGY OF THE SOUL (sortie: 8 juillet)
Premier album de Ron Sexsmith pour Yep Roc Records
14 nouvelles chansons
Produit par Martin Terefe (Cobblestone Runway, Retriever), enregistré à Londres (GB) et Havana (Cuba).
L'album est annoncé très arrangé, avec violons et cuivres.
L'album contient une version différente de "Brandy Alexander", co-écrit avec Feist, qu'on trouvait déjà sur l'album Reminder de celle-ci l'année dernière.
Les titres:
1. Spiritude
2. This Is How I Know
3. One Last Round
4. Ghost of a Chance
5. Thoughts and Prayers
6. Brandy Alexander
7. Traveling Alone
8. Poor Helpless Dreams
9. Hard Time
10. The Impossible World
11. Chased By Love
12. Brighter Still
13. Music To My Ears
14. Dawn Anna
Sortira en France chez V2/Universal.
Premier album de Ron Sexsmith pour Yep Roc Records
14 nouvelles chansons
Produit par Martin Terefe (Cobblestone Runway, Retriever), enregistré à Londres (GB) et Havana (Cuba).
L'album est annoncé très arrangé, avec violons et cuivres.
L'album contient une version différente de "Brandy Alexander", co-écrit avec Feist, qu'on trouvait déjà sur l'album Reminder de celle-ci l'année dernière.
Les titres:
1. Spiritude
2. This Is How I Know
3. One Last Round
4. Ghost of a Chance
5. Thoughts and Prayers
6. Brandy Alexander
7. Traveling Alone
8. Poor Helpless Dreams
9. Hard Time
10. The Impossible World
11. Chased By Love
12. Brighter Still
13. Music To My Ears
14. Dawn Anna
Sortira en France chez V2/Universal.
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J'ai appris aujourd'hui que l'album de Sexsmith sortira chez Fargo! (toujours le 8 juillet) On peut en écouter une chanson là
Dernière édition par Hugues le Ven 6 Juin - 6:28, édité 1 fois
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BOOM BOOM a écrit:Je viens de consulter le site de Taratata.J'ai une mémoire d' .Le 27/02/1996(effectivement ça date)pour une diffusion le 31/03/1996 Ron Sexsmith a interpreté à Taratata"Worlds we never use" et avec les Innocents"i will" et "Julia"(des Beatles?)Que faisais tu donc le 31/03/1996?Hugues?
la voici
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Hugues a écrit:J'ai appris aujourd'hui que l'album de Sexsmith sortira chez Fargo! (toujours le 8 juillet) On peut en écouter une chanson là
Je suis en train de l'écouter et il est tout simplement excellent.
C'est de la soul de blanc comme en a fait McCartney sur son premier album solo ou dans la dernière période des Beatles. Avec bien sûr, la voix et la patte reconnaissable de Ron Sexsmith. Un grand disque qui est un peu une version "cuivrée" du magnifique Retriever.
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J'ai hâte d'écouter ça, et je lirai ta chronique avec intérêt.
Est-il au piano sur la majeure partie du disque? Ce serait une première. Jusque-là il ne s'aventurait qu'occasionnellement sur cet instrument.
Est-il au piano sur la majeure partie du disque? Ce serait une première. Jusque-là il ne s'aventurait qu'occasionnellement sur cet instrument.
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Il y a pas mal de pianos effectivement, mais on le retrouve aussi beaucoup à la guitare. J'ai l'impression que les morceaux les plus "étonnants" (entre guillemets, parce que c'est pas la révolution non plus) sont placés en début de disque, mais que la fin est très proche de Retriever. J'en dirai plus quand je l'aurai mieux écouté.
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Quelques citations de Mr Sexsmith...
"My main objective is to try and stay out of the way of the song. I want to write songs that are good whether I'm singing them or not."
“ The meaning of life is to experience and not to abstain. Religions have kind of messed everyone up because they operate on the business of fear. If you don't do this, you don't get in. We were given this thing called free will. The meaning is free will and what you choose to do with it”
"It does get frustrating. Every record you make you think there's another chance to bat and you're always striking out. So it is frustrating. I don't want to be like Nick Drake and Tim Hardin. They never really had much success in their lives. All my heroes had big hits and success. I see progress in the way it's building, but it's not in the way the general public can detect. It's out of my hands. I'm a 35-year-old guy from Canada and I don't write groove oriented-music. So, I can't expect too much."
"My main objective is to try and stay out of the way of the song. I want to write songs that are good whether I'm singing them or not."
“ The meaning of life is to experience and not to abstain. Religions have kind of messed everyone up because they operate on the business of fear. If you don't do this, you don't get in. We were given this thing called free will. The meaning is free will and what you choose to do with it”
"It does get frustrating. Every record you make you think there's another chance to bat and you're always striking out. So it is frustrating. I don't want to be like Nick Drake and Tim Hardin. They never really had much success in their lives. All my heroes had big hits and success. I see progress in the way it's building, but it's not in the way the general public can detect. It's out of my hands. I'm a 35-year-old guy from Canada and I don't write groove oriented-music. So, I can't expect too much."
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Sur l'énigmatique titre du nouvel album, Exit Strategy of the Soul, Sexsmith livre sur son site une curieuse et intéressante explication:
" I got the idea from this feeling I have sometimes when I'm standing on a bridge or on a train platform. I have this irrational feeling to jump but it's not a suicidal feeling. Its more like a dog pulling me on a leash... and I usually think in those instances that it's my spirit trying to get on to the next place or as Jim Morrison put it "break on through to the other side". I've talked to many people who have this same feeling. "
" I got the idea from this feeling I have sometimes when I'm standing on a bridge or on a train platform. I have this irrational feeling to jump but it's not a suicidal feeling. Its more like a dog pulling me on a leash... and I usually think in those instances that it's my spirit trying to get on to the next place or as Jim Morrison put it "break on through to the other side". I've talked to many people who have this same feeling. "
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Bon anniversaire, Ron!
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Love Shines follows Canadian songwriter Ron Sexsmith as he lays everything on the line to make a hit album. The curtain is pulled back for a rare glimpse inside the studio process as Sexsmith teams up with legendary producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe). But will this be enough? Sexsmith dreams of emerging with a song that achieves commercial radio play, but the journey with Rock also turns introspective.
Through a series of flashbacks the songwriter confronts the meaning of success, weighing the lure of stardom against the humble beginnings that sparked the 'birth' of his songs. Punctuated by Super 8 footage chronicling the early years, an extraordinary playlist and a stellar cast featuring Elvis Costello, Steve Earle, Feist, Kiefer Sutherland and Daniel Lanois, Love Shines is a journey to the heart and soul of what songwriting is truly about.
http://www.ronsexsmith.com/default.aspx
Through a series of flashbacks the songwriter confronts the meaning of success, weighing the lure of stardom against the humble beginnings that sparked the 'birth' of his songs. Punctuated by Super 8 footage chronicling the early years, an extraordinary playlist and a stellar cast featuring Elvis Costello, Steve Earle, Feist, Kiefer Sutherland and Daniel Lanois, Love Shines is a journey to the heart and soul of what songwriting is truly about.
http://www.ronsexsmith.com/default.aspx
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