Cobblestone Runway
Encyclopedia
Cobblestone Runway is a 2002 album from Canadian
singer-songwriter
Ron Sexsmith
. The album also features a second version of the song "Gold In Them Hills" as a bonus, featuring a duet vocal with Coldplay
's Chris Martin
. Some printings of the album came with a second disc, a re-release of "Grand Opera Lane."
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Ron Sexsmith
Ron Sexsmith
Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...
. The album also features a second version of the song "Gold In Them Hills" as a bonus, featuring a duet vocal with Coldplay
Coldplay
Coldplay are a British alternative rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London. After they formed Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as a bassist and they changed their name to Starfish. Will Champion joined as a...
's Chris Martin
Chris Martin
Christopher Anthony John "Chris" Martin is an English song-writer, who is the lead vocalist, pianist and rhythm guitarist of the band Coldplay. He is married to actress Gwyneth Paltrow.-Early life:...
. Some printings of the album came with a second disc, a re-release of "Grand Opera Lane."
Track listing
All songs written by Ronald Eldon Sexsmith- "Former Glory"
- "These Days"
- "Least That I Can Do"
- "God Loves Everyone"
- "Disappearing Act"
- "For a Moment There"
- "Gold in Them Hills"
- "Heart's Desire"
- "Dragonfly on Bay StreetBay StreetBay Street, originally known as Bear Street, is a major thoroughfare in Downtown Toronto. It is the centre of Toronto's Financial District and is often used by metonymy to refer to Canada's financial industry since succeeding Montreal's St. James Street in that role in the 1970s...
" - "The Less I Know"
- "Up the Road"
- "Best Friends"
- "Gold in Them Hills" (featuring Chris MartinChris MartinChristopher Anthony John "Chris" Martin is an English song-writer, who is the lead vocalist, pianist and rhythm guitarist of the band Coldplay. He is married to actress Gwyneth Paltrow.-Early life:...
)
Personnel
- Ron Sexsmith – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano
- Martin Terefe - producer, bass, synthetizers, hi-hats, backing vocals, marimbas
- Glen Scott - Fender Rhodes, backing vocals
- Christer Jansson - drums, percussion, brushes
- Claes Bjorklund - noises, string machine, grooves, synth bass, vocoder, synthetizers, drums, piano, bass, Fender Rhodes, mirage operator, funk guitar
- Andreas Olsson - bells, electronic grooves, noises
- Kim Fleming - choir
- George Pendergrass - choir
- Chris Willis - choir
- Steve Crawford - choir
- Gale West - choir
- David Davidson - violin, string arranger
- David Angell - violin
- Kristin Wilkinson - viola
- John Catchings - cello
- Chris Martin - vocals