Ian Tyson

[Buffalo Creek Law Dog]

I noticed that there are quite a few Ian Tyson fans on this board.  I am one of them of course.

Ian is the genuine article,  broke his ankle in a rodeo accident and started playing the guitar while recuperating.

Do you remember him back in the sixties, Ian and Sylvia and the Great Speckled Bird doing the coffee houses throughout the States.  Sylvia was his first wife but she didn't share his love of the cowboy lifestyle.

He has a ranch about a 100 miles south of us at Longview, Alberta just SW of Calgary.  Same local as the town of "Big Whiskey" in Clint's Unforgiven.  He remarried and their daughter, Adelita is a barrel racer.

When he is not singing, he is raising and competing with cutting horses.  He also has a coffee house in Longview called "The Navajo Mug"

There is a biography out called " Ian Tyson - I never sold my saddle".  The US publisher is "A Peregrine Smith Book, published simultaneously in the United States by Gibbs Smith, Publisher."  P.O. Box 667, Layton, Utah, 84041  Interesting stories about Bob Dylan and others of that era.

A couple of summers ago my wife and I were down in that area and if you remember the song "Springtime"  about pulling calves on the northern range.  Those ranches he mentions in the song are there.

I can see where he got the inspiration for the song "Magpie", last summer we camped about 10 miles from his ranch, and while eating lunch we noticed about 30+ Magpies sitting in the trees watching us.  They were waiting for us to toss them some goodies. I threw out a piece of bread and one swooped down and got it.  Very picturesque area.

[Curley Cole]

I recently found a ticket stub in my office from the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach CA from about 1966. I flipped it over and it was stamped Ian and Sylvia. One of my altime fav. songs was These Friends Of Mine..

Curley

[W.T.]

Cellar Door, Georgetown, Washington, DC, 1963 (4?).  Headliners Ian & Sylvia, opened by an unknown comedian named Bill Cosby.

[litl rooster]

   Never heard of him...............4 strong winds

[Sod Buster]

   Never heard of him...............4 strong winds

[Delmonico]

If I could roll back the years
Back when I was young and limber
Loose as ashes in the wind
I had no irons in the fire
I could ride them wild young broncos
The adrenaline came quickly
And Juanita down at Mona's
Was my only hearts desire

And the sighing of the pines
Up here near the timberline
Makes me wish I'd done things different
Oh, but wishing don't make it so
Oh the time has passed so quick
The years all run together now
Did I hold Juanita yesterday
Or was it fifty years ago

We were living for the moment
And the sunlight on my silver bits
The ringing of my jinglebobs
Was the music of my soul
In the alley back of Mona's
I held Juanita in the shadows
How we held on to each other
And the lovin' that we stole

And the sighing of the pines
Up here near the timberline
Makes me wish I'd done things different
Oh, but wishing don't make it so
Oh the time has passed so quick
The years all run together now
Did I hold Juanita yesterday
Or was it fifty years ago

If I would have quit them broncos
She might have quit that business
But that was back in the fast days
You know before the wire
I bet I could still find her
Bet she's still as pretty
As when she's Juanita down at Mona's
And my only heart's desire

And the sighing of the pines
Up here near the timberline
Makes me wish I'd done things different
Oh, but wishing don't make it so
Oh the time has passed so quick
The years all run together now
Did I hold Juanita yesterday
Or was it fifty years ago

And the sighing of the pines
Up here near the timberline
Makes me wish I'd done things different
Oh, but wishing don't make it so
Oh the time has passed so quick
The years all run together now
Did I hold Juanita yesterday
Or was it fifty years ago

I sell maybe a 100 or more of his CD's at work every year.  Don't like him at all, don't know why I used a line from this song in my signiture.   BTW two others use a lyric from this one also.

[Capt. John Fitzgerald]

Ian & Sylvia were, and still are, my favorites from the 60's folk era.  Sylvia is still going strong herself and has a couple of albums out, You Were On My Mind (a song that she wrote and they recorded way back then) and Gypsy Cadillac.

[Curley Cole]

http://www.quartette.com/sylvia.htm

Here is a good web page, it starts with Sylvia, and a little ways down has good links to Ian...

Another group/duo that had an interesting sound was Richard and Mimi Farina. (she was Joan Baez' baby sister..) favorite songs from them was:
Raven Girl (about Joanie)
and
Mainline Prosperety blues  (Good morning sweet companion, pardon me if I have forgotten your name......)

Curley

[W.T.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_syoetrnY&mode=related&search=

couple more out there...

[Buffalo Creek Law Dog]

   Never heard of him...............4 strong winds

Ian says that he is still getting cheques (that's how we spell check in Canada) for that song.  He sang it at the 1988 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies at Calgary.

[RattlesnakeJack]

Had the great pleasure of attending a live performance by Ian here in Medicine Hat just a few months ago.  He is getting a wee bit long in the tooth, as they say, but he sure as heck can still sing!

Bought a copy of one of his latest CD's  ....  "Songs From the Gravel Road"  ... and got him to autograph the case insert -

[litl rooster]

Ian says that he is still getting cheques (that's how we spell check in Canada) for that song.  He sang it at the 1988 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies at Calgary.

Ha ha I dun forgot about this one.....Ian still gittin' checks< that's how my bank spells it for a bunch of them old songs.

[Pinto Being]

Just to keep this thread goin',

Ian is the real deal.

[Silver Creek Slim]

I'z listenin' ta Cowboy Cultural Society. Just heard "The Coyote & The Cowboy".

Slim