Jimmy Rankin - Edge Of Day - CD
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Like any painter worth his salt, Jimmy Rankin knows how to make a lasting impression. Except that, as a man who has won four SOCAN-sponsored ECMA-and-Juno Songwriter Of The Year Awards for the chart-topping 'Fare Thee Well Love', 'You Feel The Same Way Too', 'Followed Her Around' and 'Midnight Angel', his canvas isn’t restricted to an easel and a few tubes of paint. It’s framed by experience — and depending on how the Cape Breton native channels his idea — a masterstroke of an alt. country, adult-contemporary or rock-flavoured arrangement depicting his life, emotions and observations with resonating finesse. Just hand him a guitar — preferably an acoustic Gibson; give him a little think-time and watch Jimmy — no, hear him — weave some aural magic. "To me, writing a song is almost like creating a painting," notes Jimmy, who offers 13 picture-perfect portraits of sonic splendour on his new album, Edge of Day.
Whether it’s the potent roots-scented shuffle of 'Stranded', the guilt-tinged poignancy of the album’s first single, 'Slipping Away', the urgent fiddle-driven desperation of Got To Leave Louisiana', the romantic resignation of 'Hopeless', or the euphoric optimism of 'When I Rise', the musical tales woven on Colin Linden-produced Edge of Day are borne from the days he’s spent living, traveling and soaking in the planet since the release of 2003’s Handmade. "Over the past three years I’ve taken a lot of my inspiration from the world I see around me," says Jimmy, who recorded the album in Nashville at the Rendering Plant and at Pinhead Recorders in Toronto during a busy year that also included a World Vision trip to Nicaragua and a recording reunion of The Rankins. And for the first time, Jimmy is also enlisting a generous portion of observation from outside his own perspective: half the songs on Edge of Day involve an impressive list of collaborators ranging from Gordie Sampson and Tom Wilson to Jon Randall and Craig Northey.
Whether it’s the potent roots-scented shuffle of 'Stranded', the guilt-tinged poignancy of the album’s first single, 'Slipping Away', the urgent fiddle-driven desperation of Got To Leave Louisiana', the romantic resignation of 'Hopeless', or the euphoric optimism of 'When I Rise', the musical tales woven on Colin Linden-produced Edge of Day are borne from the days he’s spent living, traveling and soaking in the planet since the release of 2003’s Handmade. "Over the past three years I’ve taken a lot of my inspiration from the world I see around me," says Jimmy, who recorded the album in Nashville at the Rendering Plant and at Pinhead Recorders in Toronto during a busy year that also included a World Vision trip to Nicaragua and a recording reunion of The Rankins. And for the first time, Jimmy is also enlisting a generous portion of observation from outside his own perspective: half the songs on Edge of Day involve an impressive list of collaborators ranging from Gordie Sampson and Tom Wilson to Jon Randall and Craig Northey.