Albums That Should Exist : Ron Sexsmith covers Vol III 2002 -2005

 

Ron Sexsmith - Reasons to Believe, Volume 3: 2002-2005

This is Volume 3 of my Rox Sexsmith stray tracks collection. It mostly consists of cover versions, but there are a few originals in there.

All but two of the songs are officially release. Those two are "Guess Things Happen That Way" and "Wrecking Ball." They're from concert bootlegs. But they're probably from soundboards, because their sound quality is excellent.

Regarding the officially released songs, six of them come from the 2004 album "Has-Been and Wives:" tracks 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, and 15. Technically, this album was credited to "the Kelele Brothers," but that's just another name for Sexsmith and his backing band. They did another album in 2001, and I included some songs from that on the last album in this series. As with that volume, I've only included the songs where Sexsmith is the lead vocalist. I've scattered them between some other songs because the sound is ukelele-centric, and I wanted to spread that out.

Regarding the other songs, they're generally from various artists collections and appearances on other artists' albums. For instance, there are songs from tribute albums to Stephen Foster, NRBQ, and Gordon Lightfoot. There's also one song, "All Too Much," that's a bonus track.

Note that the first song, "Wastin' Time," appears on his debut studio album "Ron Sexsmith." But this is a piano-centric version that I figured was different enough to merit inclusion.

As with the rest of this series, thanks to Pete BBBB for help finding the songs and organizing the information about them.

This album is 50 minutes long.

Here's a list of the original artists for each song: 

01 Wastin' Time [Piano Version] - Ron Sexsmith
02 Maybe This Christmas - Ron Sexsmith
03 Guess Things Happen That Way - Johnny Cash
04 Drifters - Gordon Lightfoot
05 Chick Habit - Serge Gainsbourg / April March
06 All Too Much - Ron Sexsmith
07 Wrecking Ball - Neil Young
08 Father Christmas - Kinks
09 Boredom and Loneliness - Ron Sexsmith
10 Comrades Fill No Glass for Me - Stephen Foster
11 I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore - Randy Newman / Dusty Springfield
12 My Girlfriend's Pretty - NRBQ
13 Blue, Red and Grey - Who
14 Los Mismo Que Yo [If Only] - Alex Cuba & Ron Sexsmith 
15 One Brown Mouse - Jethro Tull  

16 Song No. 6 - Ane Bruno. 

ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST : Reasons To Believe Vol 2 - RON SEXSMITH + Some extra Ron Sexsmith cover songs

 . . . . . . and we’ll wrap up todays blast from Albums That Should Exist with volume two of Ron Sexsmith’s Cover songs

Vol II from ATSE who says:

"I recently started posting a big series of albums containing all the songs by Ron Sexsmith I could find that aren't on any of his studio albums, including his rarities collection simply called "Rarities." Here's a second volume. 
As with the first volume, the vast majority of the songs are cover versions, but not all of them are. Two songs here, tracks one and three, were written by Sexsmith.
All but four of the songs were officially released. As usual with all the albums I post at this blog, check out the mp3 tags for details. It's the typical mix of songs from singles, various artists collections, appearances on other artist's albums, and the like.
One special case here is that tracks 11, 12, and 13 are from a 2001 album by the Kelele Brothers called "Escape from Bover County." In fact, this band was made up of Sexsmith and members of his backing band, with an emphasis on prominently using the ukelele. They recorded some songs just for fun while in hotel rooms during a concert tour. The album gave the backing band members a chance to shine and sing lead vocals. I selected just the songs I liked with Sexsmith as the lead vocalist.

As for the four unreleased songs, those are tracks five through eight. They all come from different 1999 concerts. The sound quality is very good on those, and I removed the crowd noise as best I could (using the MVSEP program) to help those songs fit in with all the studio tracks."

This album is 48 minutes long. 

Here's the list of the original artists for each song: 

01 You Alone - Ron Sexsmith
02 Ships Go Out - Tom T. Hall
03 Camelot Towers - Ron Sexsmith
04 Reason to Believe - Tim Hardin
05 Everyday I Write the Book - Elvis Costello
06 Snowbird - Anne Murray
07 Factory - Bruce Springsteen
08 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Leonard Cohen
09 Lucid Dreams - Captain Funk
10 Always - Shea Seger
11 The Girl Can't Help It - Bobby Troup / Little Richard
12 Philadelphia Baby - Charlie Rich
13 The Joker [That's What They Call Me] - Billy Myles
14 An Elephant Insect - Shonen Knife
15 This Is Where I Belong - Kinks

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Ron Sexsmith - Reasons To Believe (by Tim Hardin)

Ron Sexsmith - The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles)

Justin looks at Ron Sexsmith . . . . . . . . . .

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