Ron Sexsmith's first album was self-released in 1986.
Ron Sexsmith speaks about turning 60, playing Massey Hall over the years and some of the music icons he has worked with over his storied career.Canadian music legend Ron Sexsmith looks back on a remarkable career with a 60th birthday concert at Massey Hall
But Sexsmith still finds playing there a privilege, partly due to his annual trips to go see Gordon Lightfoot at Massey every year."It just became sort of my favourite thing really to do as a Canadian, to go to Massey Hall and hear Gordon's voice," Sexsmith toldguest host Manjula Selvarajah. "Back in the old days when I was a courier where I couldn't afford a ticket and I would listen to the show by that stage door ...
When you talk to, most sort of musical enthusiast music critics, they'll say that Ron Sexsmith is a critical part of the Canadian songbook. What do you say to that? One of my heroes was Nick Lowe from England. I mean, we had the Elvis Costello albums, which Nick, you know, he produced some of those and he was the first person I ever heard actually cover one of my songs. But we've done a bunch of tours together, and you know, we generally will sing a song or two during the encore, and we just have a really, I think, a good sound. I always thought we should have made a record or something together, but we speak the same language musically.
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