‘Diamond Wave’, the second single from Ron Sexsmith’s eagerly awaited new album ‘The Vivian Line’ is available at all reputable digital platforms today alongside his previous single ‘What I Had In Mind’. ‘Diamond Wave’ is a song Ron wrote over three decades ago, but never got round to recording. CJ Wallis directed the animated video alongside the single HERE.
Ron says: “I wrote ‘Diamond Wave’ back in ’88 on my birthday, January 8th. It’s the only song on the record that’s not a brand new song. I’d sort of forgotten about it. At the time when I wrote it I’d almost lost my job as a courier. I had to go downtown on my birthday and speak to my bosses and convince them to give me another chance, which they did; maybe it had something to do with it being my birthday. I remember coming home and feeling pretty happy that I hadn’t lost my job. I just started writing this song on the streetcar… on the subway back to my house. When I was putting these songs together for this album I just started playing it again…. hadn’t thought of it in years. It seemed to fit in with this new batch and I was very happy to find a home for it.”
Ron Sexsmith is one of Canada’s most accomplished singer-songwriters. Born and bred in St Catherine’s near Niagara Falls and currently resident in Stratford, Ontario, he has released 16 albums to date – Grand Opera Lane (1991), Ron Sexsmith (1995), Other Songs (1997), Whereabouts (1999), Blue Boy (2001), Cobblestone Runway (2002), Rarities (2003), Retriever (2004), Destination Unknown (2005, with Don Kerr, released as Sexsmith & Kerr), Time Being (2006), Exit Strategy Of The Soul (2008), Long Player Late Bloomer (2011), Forever Endeavour (2013), Carousel One (2015), The Last Rider (2017) and Hermitage (2020). He has collaborated with the likes of Daniel Lanois, Mitchell Froom, Ane Brun, Tchad Blake, and Bob Rock. His songwriting appears on albums from Rod Stewart, Michael Bublé, k.d. lang, Emmylou Harris and Feist. Film-maker Doug Arrowsmith made an acclaimed documentary about Ron in 2010 called ‘Love Shines’. In 2017 Ron published his first book, a fairy tale entitled ‘Deer Life.’
