| Whereabouts | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Ron Sexsmith |
| Cover: | Ron_Sexsmith_-_Whereabouts_Album_Cover.jpg |
| Released: | May 18, 1999 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 39:05 |
| Label: | Interscope |
| Producer: | Tchad Blake, Mitchell Froom[1] |
| Prev Title: | Other Songs |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | Blue Boy |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
Whereabouts is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, released in 1999 on Interscope Records.[2] [3] The album was a nominee for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo at the 2000 Juno Awards.[4]
Entertainment Weekly wrote that "producers Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake do a wonderfully understated job of colorizing Sexsmith’s sad-kid melodies and voice."[1] The Washington Post wrote that the album "suggests the songs of a less clever Elvis Costello sung by David Byrne in his most earnest mode."[5] Rolling Stone called it "twelve near-perfect songs, the whole clocking in at under forty minutes." Trouser Press wrote: "Carrying along such instrumental window dressing as banjo, strings, woodwinds and horns, it is overly languorous and stylistically diverse."[6] The New Yorker called the songs "either low-country laments or mid-tempo lullabies—minimalist heartbreakers all."[7]