Ron Sexsmith Setlist

Varsity Theater, Minneapolis (01/17/07)

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This is because the male vocals on this song is by none other than Ron Sexsmith. While the presence of Sexsmith doesn’t hurt the song, I just felt the gentle love song …

Kim Taylor

Kim Taylor opened up the show. From my notes, I think she started the set with a song from her first album, followed by “Anchor Down”, which is from her latest album, Little Miracle. …

Welcome to 2014! Since everybody is on holiday, here’s a special look at Ron Sexsmith at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis in 2007, seven years ago.

W♥M started on January 25, 2007, and this show took place the previous week. I didn’t take any notes, but I do have documentation via some photographs of the show.

Concert Poster

Varsity Theater

According to the show poster, the show was $10 in “adcance” and it started fairly early at 8pm. The poster indicated that Ron Sexsmith was on tour for his then-new album Time Being.

The Varsity Theater doesn’t print these extra-large elongated posters anymore, and speaking with the manager from that period, it’s printed on some architecture/drafting industrial printer (meant for printing large blueprints). For a time, these colorful posters adorned the interior walls of the Varsity Theater.

Kim Taylor

01/17/2007

Opening up for Sexsmith was Kim Taylor, a singer/songwriter from Ohio. This was fairly early in Taylor’s music career, chances were she played songs from her 2006 album
I Feel Like a Fading Light. That album featured her hit song, “Baby I Need You”, which was later used in the 200th episode of Smallville (October 22, 2010).

I later caught Taylor again at the Turf Club in Saint Paul (11/04/10) and noted that she was quite shy.

Taylor was recently one of the star of Matthew Porterfield’s film I Used to Be Darker, where she plays a singer/songwriter named Kim.
She’s currently in Europe, promoting the film.

As for Ron Sexsmith, he’s a Canadian singer/songwriter, whose major label debut self-titled album was heavily promoted in the UK (including massive advertisement campaigns in NME, Select, and Q) in 1994-1995.

As expected, he played a few songs from Time Being, including
“Hands Of Time”,
“Ship Of Fools”,
“Snow Angel”,
“Jazz At The Bookstore”,
“Never Give Up”, and
“All In Good Time”.
I actually filmed “Cheap Hotel”, which was played fairly early in his set. The song is taken from his 2001 album Blue Boy, and you can view it on
YouTube.

Currently, Ron Sexsmith released Forever Endeavour on February 2013, via Cooking Vinyl Records. He did a brief East Coast tour in April, ending at Chicago’s City Winery on April 11th.