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Ron Sexsmith - Tickets zu gewinnen. 18.08.2026 Berlin – Frannz Club
20.08.2026 Köln – Kulturkirche
21.08.2026 Frankfurt – Brotfabrik
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Ron Sexsmith Sings “God Loves Everyone”
Listen to this track by soulful Canadian singer-songwriter with higher things on his mind, Ron Sexsmith. It’ s “God Loves Everyone”, a contemplative deep cut from his 2002 record Cobblestone Runway, his sixth album. At this point in his career, Sexsmith was looking to go beyond the barriers of his folk-rock singer-songwriter sound he’d crafted on his first few records with Mitchell Froom in the producer’s chair and later with Steve Earle and Ray Kennedy. The trick was to find a way to make an album in a different way than before to find a path to a new sound.
Cobblestone Runway found him working with a new producer, Martin Terefe, who applies programmed elements and other more electronic production flourishes to give the album a more European feel than Sexsmith’s previous work. Ron laid down his voice and guitar in solo sessions in London, providing the foundation for rhythm tracks and other layers on top. Terefe sent Sexsmith the rough mixes while Sexsmith was still touring his previous album, 2001’s excellent Blue Boy.
This methodology to make the new album was slightly uncomfortable for the songwriter at first. But it resulted in a tastefully balanced and texturally varied Ron Sexsmith record that saw him level up as a writer and recording artist. It sounds different enough from past releases to not to be jarring, but new enough to sound fresh. In fact, Cobblestone Runway serves to mark a new era, with many of the songs being among the best ones he’s recorded to date.
“God Loves Everyone” stands out as a load bearing song on this front in particularly effective ways. For one thing, this cut captures one of his career-best vocal performances. Another strength is the song’s hymn-like melody that remains to be one of his finest. Like so many of his compositions, this tune sounds like it could be traced to musical origins that are far older than they really are. A third strength is the arrangement. Sexsmith’s voice and acoustic guitar are at centre stage, joined by warm and wistful strings that help to accentuate the emotional gravity of the lyrics without being syrupy or overwrought.
The soothing quality of “God Loves Everyone” and many others on the record are come by honestly. The song and the album came out of a challenging period of transition for Ron Sexsmith on several levels. He struggled with a marital breakdown. His relationship with his label had come to an end. And by this time, he was beginning to feel like it was a case of always the bridesmaid and never the bride when it came to radio play and greater international recognition.
Singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith in 2006. image: Masao NakagamiThis need for more exposure and greater career traction wasn’t about fame and fortune. Ron Sexsmith wanted what all artists want; to connect with a wider audience with as much honesty and consistency as was possible. He also wanted to continue writing material that kept him striving for the good and the hopeful instead of finding him stuck in his personal struggles and perceived career doldrums.
In many ways, “God Loves Everyone” does just that, plus quite a bit extra. It’s a song of optimism and great warmth that also deals in a topic that’s wrapped up in a lot of cultural baggage. Its message is a seemingly straightforward plea to see the commonalities between people while also acknowledging that our differences are no bad thing either. Yet this song is more sophisticated than that sentiment suggests. Without saying as much directly, the song also suggests its opposite position on the value of human worth as represented by more traditional interpretations of the person of God.
Historically speaking, God and the structures of organized religion have been used as a tool for fear and control by those in power. They’ve been in place to make those not favoured by authoritarian hierarchies subject to oppression and violence with justifications built right in. In this, the person of God was created in the image of those who cling to political power at any cost and who control the wealth that finances the mechanisms that shape society in their favour and keeps things as they are.
“God Loves Everyone” is a bold and powerful statement that stands in direct opposition to this. On the surface, it’s a kind of universalist hymn. But in its openness and its inclusivity, it is more than just a call for peace and unity. As gentle as it is, it is also defiant against those aforementioned hierarchies designed to divide instead of unite.
Oh, the killer in his cell
The atheist as well
The pure of heart
And the wild at heartAll worthy of its grace
It’s written in the face
Of everyone
God loves everyone~ “God Loves Everyone” by Ron Sexsmith
In this song, God doesn’t sit above us on high. They’re like the air from room to room. God surrounds us all in love whether living, dead, queer, or straight. It welcomes souls of every faith and no faith and with no threat of hell to extort us into returning that love.
In its small way, “God Loves Everyone” is socially radical. It reclaims the personhood of God not as an authoritarian tyrant who seeks to subjugate and condemn us for disbelief but as a force that binds us all together in acceptance and love, no matter who we are. It or They or She love us like a mother loves her son. Even this language stands in opposition to the patriarchal structures around which reinforced images and concepts of God are based.
Having said all that, “God Loves Everyone” is not an incendiary song that rages against authoritarianism and patriarchy. Primarily, it’s a song of comfort for listeners and also one of self-comfort in a sometimes painful and uncertain world. This is a version of God as the writer hopes God to be. It springs from Sexsmith’s own impulses to celebrate love that can exist between people in a way that’s inclusive and not exclusionary, unconditional and not laced with ulterior motives.
“God Loves Everyone” is a prayer Ron Sexsmith is letting us listeners into. It’s about never losing the thread that binds us all; our intrinsic value as human beings as we all take the bumpy ride down the cobblestone runway of existence.
Ron Sexsmith is an active singer-songwriter today. You can learn more about how he made the Cobblestone Runway album right here at ronsexsmith.com
For more on Ron Sexsmith’s music, check out this list of 20 Great Ron Sexsmith songs, also written by your humble host.
Enjoy!
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Getting to see Ron Sexsmith play in Sydney last night was glorious. #RonSexsmith
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Getting to see Ron Sexsmith play in Sydney last night was glorious. #RonSexsmith
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Getting to see Ron Sexsmith play in Sydney last night was glorious. #RonSexsmith
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Getting to see Ron Sexsmith play in Sydney last night was glorious. #RonSexsmith
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Ron Sexsmith in the UK, check tickets - #ronsexsmith @RonSexsmith
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The Mountain Goats and Ron Sexsmith coming to the west coast in the same month!
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The Mountain Goats and Ron Sexsmith coming to the west coast in the same month!
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The Mountain Goats and Ron Sexsmith coming to the west coast in the same month!
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Ron Sexsmith - Whereabouts - 1999
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Ron Sexsmith - Whereabouts - 1999
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Randomly decided to listen to Ron Sexsmith's major label debut from 1995, knew basically nothing about him, but I've really enjoyed him. A mellow, introspective folk with little flashes of rock here and there. I would listen to more.
#ronsexsmith #folk #folkrock #altfolk #90s #canadiana #americana
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Randomly decided to listen to Ron Sexsmith's major label debut from 1995, knew basically nothing about him, but I've really enjoyed him. A mellow, introspective folk with little flashes of rock here and there. I would listen to more.
#ronsexsmith #folk #folkrock #altfolk #90s #canadiana #americana
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Randomly decided to listen to Ron Sexsmith's major label debut from 1995, knew basically nothing about him, but I've really enjoyed him. A mellow, introspective folk with little flashes of rock here and there. I would listen to more.
#ronsexsmith #folk #folkrock #altfolk #90s #canadiana #americana
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Randomly decided to listen to Ron Sexsmith's major label debut from 1995, knew basically nothing about him, but I've really enjoyed him. A mellow, introspective folk with little flashes of rock here and there. I would listen to more.
#ronsexsmith #folk #folkrock #altfolk #90s #canadiana #americana
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MusikBlog präsentiert Ron Sexsmith. Wer da?
Ron Sexsmith, ein kanadischer Singer/Songwriter aus Stratford, Ontario (ursprünglich St. ......
#RonSexsmith#ArtPop #IndiePop #News #SingerSongwriter
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MusikBlog präsentiert Ron Sexsmith. Wer da?
Ron Sexsmith, ein kanadischer Singer/Songwriter aus Stratford, Ontario (ursprünglich St. ......
#RonSexsmith#ArtPop #IndiePop #News #SingerSongwriter
https://www.musikblog.de/2025/11/musikblog-praesentiert-ron-sexsmith/ -
MusikBlog präsentiert Ron Sexsmith. Wer da?
Ron Sexsmith, ein kanadischer Singer/Songwriter aus Stratford, Ontario (ursprünglich St. ......
#RonSexsmith#ArtPop #IndiePop #News #SingerSongwriter
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Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 35
May 9 - A Busy Day in Music History
Good Golly It’s Busy
#HankSnow #therollingstones #SonnyCurtis #theeverlybrothers #billyjoel #melissaetheridge #louisarmstrong #barbrastreisand #bobdylan #billybragg #thedoors #theguesswho #buttholesurfers #brucespringsteen #theboomtownrats #BobGeldof #bonjovi #ronsexsmith #starship #graceslick #AlbertHammond #BonnieTyler #jimmypage #littlerichard
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Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 35
May 9 - A Busy Day in Music History
Good Golly It’s Busy
#HankSnow #therollingstones #SonnyCurtis #theeverlybrothers #billyjoel #melissaetheridge #louisarmstrong #barbrastreisand #bobdylan #billybragg #thedoors #theguesswho #buttholesurfers #brucespringsteen #theboomtownrats #BobGeldof #bonjovi #ronsexsmith #starship #graceslick #AlbertHammond #BonnieTyler #jimmypage #littlerichard
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Ron Sexsmith Sings “Spring of the Following Year”
Listen to this track by celebrated singer-songwriter and rural Ontarian country gentleman Ron Sexsmith. It’s “Spring of the Following Year”, the opening cut to Sexsmith’s 2020 release, Hermitage. That album, his fifteenth since his self-titled 1995 debut, marked a new era for the songwriter who’d made the move from Toronto’s urban metropolis to the leafy environs of Stratford, Ontario.
Sexsmith found that life in his newly adopted hometown had a curious effect on him. The stress of living in Toronto that once unknowingly weighed him down began to dissipate. Surrounded by trees and birds and with daily walks along the river into town to get coffee and run errands, Ron Sexsmith found that ideas for new songs were bursting forth from his songwriter’s brain. A “writing frenzy” ensued. In the middle of a project to turn his book Deer Life into a musical, Sexsmith realized that he had a new record brewing in his imagination as well. It seemed that leaving Toronto, which he initially resisted, turned out to be a pretty good idea after all.
All these new ideas for tunes springing up like daisies seemed directly related to his change of scenery and new chapter in his life. With a general tone and point of view between the songs understood, he wanted to imbue the new record with the same spirit of contentment he was feeling himself as inspired by his new surroundings. With that in mind, Sexsmith considered a new approach to making his new album.
His long-time collaborator and friend Don Kerr suggested that he make a homemade album in the style of Paul McCartney’s early solo career. So, the two of them miked up Sexsmith’s new house and turned it into a temporary studio space. At Kerr’s prompting, Sexsmith sings and plays all the instruments himself, except the drums. Kerr fills the gap behind the drum kit while also serving as producer.
Ron Sexsmith on stage with his band (also on the very big video screens!) at Harbourfront in Toronto, August 2015. image: A & JBy the time the new album came out, the title Hermitage took on new meaning beyond the move to (literally) greener pastures in a new town far from the madding crowd. The album’s release corresponded with a call for a necessary hermitage for everyone in light of Covid-19 lockdowns. With that, “Spring of the Following Year”, a song about looking forward to what the future brings, took on an additional layer of meaning for listeners. It also reflects one of Sexsmith’s trademark acknowledgements evident in many of his other songs: that even when things haven’t come to their full fruition in the present, there’s always the hope that they will in the near future after love has grown that much stronger.
The other songs on the new album find Sexsmith drawing from his seemingly bottomless well of inspiration from the golden age of AM radio. Yet, “Spring of the Following Year” seems to go back even further still as a sterling example of Sexsmith’s ability to write a song that could have been written yesterday or a century ago. This one reflects a Hoagy Carmichael-style traditional pop tune from the American songbook, reflective of Sexsmith’s fascination with crooners like Bing Crosby and their ability to communicate subtle emotions through vocal phrasing.
The feel and atmosphere of this song in that stylistic vein is perfect for the song’s subject matter. This is a love song about the joy of being with the right person and looking forward to what love will look like as it grows even deeper. It’s about feeling safe and secure in the knowledge that two people have built something wonderful together, content in the present while marveling at what the possibilities are for the next year and the year after that.
What birds will sing
In the spring of the following year?
Will there be new birds with words from above?
Guess no one really knows for sure
But I will love you even more
Even more, even more~ “Spring of the Following Year” by Ron Sexsmith
In the middle of what turned out to be a very trying and even tragic year for the whole world by then, this song was a balm arriving seemingly just in time. The idea of not knowing what the future will bring but being sure that love will be stronger no matter what was such an important concept for so many people at the time. Sexsmith’s song is illuminated by old fashioned sentimentality. At the same time, he turns it into a statement of bold optimism in answer to its times. Somewhere in there, his own happiness shines through to make the music and its sentiment even more affecting.
The whole of Hermitage coalesces around radical gratitude and personal contentment. It celebrates the act and experience of finding joy in the small things, appreciating one’s surroundings and circumstances when one can, and generally being present for ourselves and for each other while we do so. In this, Sexsmith’s work on this song and the rest of the album puts the whole idea that an artist must suffer to create great art to bed for good. Sometimes and even often when artists are happy, they make art that makes everyone happy just when it’s needed most.
Ron Sexsmith is an active artist today. You can learn more about him and stay up to date on music releases, tours, news, and other stuff at ronsexsmith.com.
You can follow Ron on Bluesky. So, you probably should.
Check out this interview with Ron Sexsmith on American Songwriter about how his change of scene affected his songwriting, and how he made the Hermitage record, too.
If you’re a fan of top ten best songs lists, here’s one that lists 10 of Ron Sexsmith’s best on Toppermost.co.uk (Writer’s note: I wrote this one, too!).
Enjoy!
#2020sMusic #chamberPop #FolkPop #RonSexsmith #singerSongwriters
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I also like #RonSexsmith's "Maybe This Christmas" come to think of it. I could probably bump Brenda Lee's tune for that one if I had to keep it to ten.
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I also like #RonSexsmith's "Maybe This Christmas" come to think of it. I could probably bump Brenda Lee's tune for that one if I had to keep it to ten.
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I also like #RonSexsmith's "Maybe This Christmas" come to think of it. I could probably bump Brenda Lee's tune for that one if I had to keep it to ten.
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I also like #RonSexsmith's "Maybe This Christmas" come to think of it. I could probably bump Brenda Lee's tune for that one if I had to keep it to ten.
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NEW post: Ron Sexsmith ... "with his songs, you know that you’re going to get them stuck in your head and that you’ll be more than happy to host them there"
@Clippernolan picks 10 of his best … #ronsexsmith (photo Vanessa Heins)
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#SaturdayMorningGuitar has been mostly just #RonSexsmith material over here. Anyone else musically noodling today?
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#SaturdayMorningGuitar has been mostly just #RonSexsmith material over here. Anyone else musically noodling today?
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#SaturdayMorningGuitar has been mostly just #RonSexsmith material over here. Anyone else musically noodling today?
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#SaturdayMorningGuitar has been mostly just #RonSexsmith material over here. Anyone else musically noodling today?
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#NowPlaying The Vivian Line by Ron Sexsmith.
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-vivian-line/1643838638
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#NowPlaying The Vivian Line by Ron Sexsmith.
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-vivian-line/1643838638
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#NowPlaying The Vivian Line by Ron Sexsmith.
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-vivian-line/1643838638
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Ron Sexsmith: sounds like an eternal optimist and Love’s greatest champion, looks like he’s about to jump off a bridge. No one ever needed his own music more. #RonSexsmith #music #optimism
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Ron Sexsmith: sounds like an eternal optimist and Love’s greatest champion, looks like he’s about to jump off a bridge. No one ever needed his own music more. #RonSexsmith #music #optimism
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Seeing #RonSexsmith tomorrow w/ my SO and I’m stoked https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=knxCqDiC3OE #music
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Seeing #RonSexsmith tomorrow w/ my SO and I’m stoked https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=knxCqDiC3OE #music
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The new #RonSexsmith record, *The Vivian Line* is, unsurprisingly, awesome.
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The new #RonSexsmith record, *The Vivian Line* is, unsurprisingly, awesome.
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The new #RonSexsmith record, *The Vivian Line* is, unsurprisingly, awesome.
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#TheDarlingBuds, #TheNoOnes, #Beatles, #Wire, #YoLaTengo, #REM, #AlabasterDePlume, #Dehd, #CutWorms, #PinkFloyd, #JudeeSill, #RonSexsmith, #DayWave, #HazelEnglish, #CourtneyBarnett, #TheFawns, #Spouse, #GeorgeHarrison, #JasonBourgeois, #GentleHen and more in this week's 25 Songs for this Week.
Every week we update this list for you. Enjoy!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7fyuMn8ZZh8N3FoJnaP7jo?si=28030ace79764e55
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#TheDarlingBuds, #TheNoOnes, #Beatles, #Wire, #YoLaTengo, #REM, #AlabasterDePlume, #Dehd, #CutWorms, #PinkFloyd, #JudeeSill, #RonSexsmith, #DayWave, #HazelEnglish, #CourtneyBarnett, #TheFawns, #Spouse, #GeorgeHarrison, #JasonBourgeois, #GentleHen and more in this week's 25 Songs for this Week.
Every week we update this list for you. Enjoy!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7fyuMn8ZZh8N3FoJnaP7jo?si=28030ace79764e55
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#TheDarlingBuds, #TheNoOnes, #Beatles, #Wire, #YoLaTengo, #REM, #AlabasterDePlume, #Dehd, #CutWorms, #PinkFloyd, #JudeeSill, #RonSexsmith, #DayWave, #HazelEnglish, #CourtneyBarnett, #TheFawns, #Spouse, #GeorgeHarrison, #JasonBourgeois, #GentleHen and more in this week's 25 Songs for this Week.
Every week we update this list for you. Enjoy!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7fyuMn8ZZh8N3FoJnaP7jo?si=28030ace79764e55