We hear songs every day and most of them we don’t really pay attention too. But the moment I heard Ron Sexsmith’s version of Gerry Rafferty’s hit, ‘Right Down the Line’ I knew I had to listen to more of this guy’s catalogue.
As Marianne Lucier stated on you tube:
Ron is not about the stagecraft. But he delivers volumes of the heart and soul of the song often better than the original did.
Even better, Ron is a passionate Bob Dylan fan. Check out his You tube page which is full of cover versions of Bob’s songs. It also has audio from his new album.
A school-friend kindly sent me a telegram after I won at the Australian Schools Athletic championships, admitting I was good enough despite wearing cheap sneakers called ‘
It’s true we didn’t have a front door. Our poor guests had to use a side gate and then dodge the snapping jaws of our little canines all the way up the steps to our back door.
Our family always tried to achieve middle-class respectability, and never quite got there. The kids at my school had made up their minds. I was the Trax boy; the school kid who wore the cheapest sneakers. Most of the kids’ families had farms with parents who wore flannelettes – not the untucked Western Suburbs style which smelt of bourbon but the settled, crisp, happily country garb which reeked of ‘contented money’.
Observation Blogger 