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Whereabouts
1999 studio album by Ron Sexsmith
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Whereabouts is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, released in 1999 on Interscope Records. The album was a nominee for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo at the 2000 Juno Awards.

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Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "producers Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake do a wonderfully understated job of colorizing Sexsmith’s sad-kid melodies and voice."8 The Washington Post wrote that the album "suggests the songs of a less clever Elvis Costello sung by David Byrne in his most earnest mode."9 Rolling Stone called it "twelve near-perfect songs, the whole clocking in at under forty minutes."10 Trouser Press wrote: "Carrying along such instrumental window dressing as banjo, strings, woodwinds and horns, it is overly languorous and stylistically diverse."11 The New Yorker called the songs "either low-country laments or mid-tempo lullabies—minimalist heartbreakers all."12

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ronald Eldon Sexsmith.

No.TitleLength
1."Still Time"3:15
2."Right About Now"2:48
3."Must Have Heard It Wrong"2:15
4."Riverbed"3:55
5."Feel for You"3:42
6."In a Flash"3:03
7."The Idiot Boy"2:47
8."Beautiful View"2:52
9."One Grey Morning"3:56
10."Doomed"3:25
11."Every Passing Day"2:52
12."Seem to Recall"4:15
Total length:39:05
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
13."Tears Behind the Shades"2:38

References

  1. "Whereabouts - Ron Sexsmith | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com. https://www.allmusic.com/album/whereabouts-mw0000666794 ↩

  2. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 361. ↩

  3. "Ron Sexsmith: Whereabouts : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". November 14, 2007. Archived from the original on November 14, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20071114110525/http://www.rollingstone.com:80/artists/ronsexsmith/albums/album/117691/review/5942327/whereabouts ↩

  4. "Reviews". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. August 2, 1999 – via Google Books. https://books.google.com/books?id=nQRXCTo-FtUC&pg=PA158 ↩

  5. Pareles, Jon (June 5, 1999). "ROCK REVIEW; Not Really a Wallflower, But Quiet and Tender (Published 1999)" – via NYTimes.com. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/05/arts/rock-review-not-really-a-wallflower-but-quiet-and-tender.html ↩

  6. "Ron Sexsmith | Biography & History". AllMusic. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ron-sexsmith-mn0000290816/biography ↩

  7. Best Roots & Traditional Album: Solo (1996–2002). Juno Awards. http://junoawards.ca/awards/yearly-summary/?group_id=197&category_ids=153&from_year=&to_year=&submit=Search ↩

  8. "Whereabouts". EW.com. https://ew.com/article/1999/05/24/whereabouts/ ↩

  9. Jenkins, Mark (June 4, 1999). "RON SEXSMITH" – via www.washingtonpost.com. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/06/04/ron-sexsmith-whereabouts-interscope/be334369-a507-48d8-a1fa-edf9211638c7/ ↩

  10. "Ron Sexsmith: Whereabouts : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". November 14, 2007. Archived from the original on November 14, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20071114110525/http://www.rollingstone.com:80/artists/ronsexsmith/albums/album/117691/review/5942327/whereabouts ↩

  11. "Ron Sexsmith". Trouser Press. Retrieved January 2, 2021. https://trouserpress.com/reviews/ron-sexsmith/ ↩

  12. "Our Hit List". The New Yorker. December 27, 1999. p. 15. ↩