''Whereabouts'' is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter

Ron Sexsmith Ronald Eldon Sexsmith (born January 8, 1964) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. He was the songwriter of the year at the 2005 Juno Awards. He began releasing recordings of his own material in 1985 at age 21, and has ...

, released in 1999 on

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. The album was a nominee for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo at the 2000 Juno Awards.Best Roots & Traditional Album: Solo (1996–2002)

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Critical reception

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'' wrote that "producers Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake do a wonderfully understated job of colorizing Sexsmith’s sad-kid melodies and voice." ''

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'' wrote that the album "suggests the songs of a less clever Elvis Costello sung by David Byrne in his most earnest mode." ''

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'' called it "twelve near-perfect songs, the whole clocking in at under forty minutes." ''

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'' wrote: "Carrying along such instrumental window dressing as banjo, strings, woodwinds and horns, it is overly languorous and stylistically diverse." ''

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'' called the songs "either low-country laments or mid-tempo lullabies—minimalist heartbreakers all."

Track listing

References

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