Exit Strategy of the Soul
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Exit Strategy of the Soul is the title of the 2008 studio album by Canadian
singer-songwriter
Ron Sexsmith
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Canada
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singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
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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...
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Track listing
All songs by Ronald Eldon Sexsmith except when specified- "Spiritude"
- "This Is How I Know"
- "One Last Round"
- "Ghost of a Chance"
- "Thoughts and Prayers"
- "Brandy Alexander" (Ronald Eldon Sexsmith and Feist)
- "Traveling Alone"
- "Poor Helpless Dreams"
- "Hard Time"
- "The Impossible World"
- "Chased by Love"
- "Brighter Still"
- "Music to My Ears"
- "Dawn Anna"
- "Seems To Me" (Bonus Track)
- Recorded by Dyre Gormsen
- Mixed by George Tandero, Martin Terefe and Thomas Juth
Personnel
- Ron Sexsmith – vocals, guitar, piano
- Neil Primrose - drums
- Sven Lindvall - bass (except tracks 1,2,12 and 14)
- Martin Terefe - electric guitar, bass (tracks 1 and 2), piano (track 12)
- Claes Björklund - keyboards, omnichord, piano (tracks 6 and 9)
- Emilio Del Monte Sr. - timbales and other percussion
- Emilio Del Monte Jr. - congas and other percussion
- Joaquin Betancourt - horns arrangement
- Alexander Abreu - trumpet
- Amaury Perez - trombone
- Jose Luis "Chewy" Hernandez - saxophone
- David Davidson - strings arrangement on "Dawn Anna', violin
- David Angell - violin
- Kris Wilkinson - viola
- John Catchings - cello
- Alexis Puentes - upright bass (track 12), nylon string guitar (track 11)
- Jamie Scott - cuatro (tracks 6,8 and 11), additional electric guitar (tracks 9 and 10)
- Kevin Hearn - piano (track 10), wurlitzer (track 2)
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- backing vocals (track 6) - Colleen Hixenbaugh - backing vocals (track 7)