Canadian singer songwriter Ron Sexsmith has a new album titled Forever Endeavour which will be released on Cooking Vinyl on Feb 5, 2013. This release marks a few changes from his last 2011 release Long Player, Late Bloomer. Production has changed from Bob Rock to Mitchell Froom following an idea by sexsmith to make a more acoustic based album with an orchestrated string section. Mitchell had worked in similar territory before with the likes of Randy Newman so it seemed like the perfect match.
Returning him to the bittersweet melancholia on which diehard fans have feasted since 1995, the new songs seemed to cry out for a softer, more orchestrated treatment than the gleaming electric sheen of its predecessor. “With Long Player, I think I wanted to make something sort of like Tapestry – just sort of catchy from start to finish,” says Sexsmith, “But these were perfect songs to work on with Mitchell. It’s probably the most personal album I’ve made, too, so it felt appropriate to do it with him.”
The album marks Sexsmith’s return to Cooking Vinyl in the U.S. (Cooking Vinyl released his most successful U.S. release to-date, Blue Boy) and was recorded in 2011 at Froom’s Santa Monica studio. Assisting on the sessions were engineer David Boucher and a clutch of seasoned West Coast players that included drummer Pete Thomas, bassist Bob Glaub and pedal steel prince Greg Leisz. Strings were overdubbed afterwards using L.A.’s feted Calder Quartet.
Watch the two Lyric Videos for Nowhere To Go / Snake Road below:
Track listing:
1. Nowhere To Go
2. Nowhere Is
3. If Only Avenue
4. Snake Road
5. Blind Eye
6. Lost In Thought
7. Sneak Out The Back Door
8. Back Of My Hand
9. Deepens With Time
10. Me Myself and Wine
11. She Does My Heart Good
12. The Morning Light
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