Heard the news earlier , my favorite country singer has turned his back to the wind and rode over the hill! Ian was 89 .
Wrecked my danged day.....
Cat

Sad news indeed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ian-tyson-dead-at-89-1.6699778

My favorite western singer. I enjoyed his songs for many years and always will. He was a Canadian treasure. Loved his ballads. He was the real deal.

Overall, he didn't make my kind of music, but I liked quite a few of his songs.

I'm pretty sure that his song "Four Strong Winds" will live on for quite a while.

Great tune and words!



John

One of my favourite albums of his was

Old Corrals and Sage Brush.

R.I.P Ian Tyson

catnthehat;
Good morning sir, I hope you're getting weather you can handle on your side of the big hills and despite the bad news yesterday you're well.

Our girls grew up listening to Cowboyography I think it was - maybe it was 18 Inches of Rain - Live at Longview and then the album he did with Tom Russell - Cowboy Real.

We saw Ian Tyson and Corb Lund together at the Vogue in Vancouver back in 2018 and while Ian's voice wasn't fantastic anymore, it was a good show.

We went with our eldest daughter and came away thinking it might be the last time we get to see Ian live, which it was.

All the best to you folks in the New Year.

Dwayne

Good Morning Dwayne, yes thanks we are all well up here, I just realized you are in Okanogan Falls, I have in laws there!
We are out of the deep freeze for a bit and I was even able to shoot a bit at 800 meters yesterday, so all is not lost!
I grew up listening to Ian Tyson and still enjoy listening to his music .
Cat

I like Ian Tyson and he is truly Canadian that had real life problems many of us have/had.
RIP Cowboy.

I was very lucky to see him perform years ago in Longview. Just a small community center with a few hundred people.

One of my most favorite country singers, he will be missed. My favorite song was "La Primera"

RIP Ian, Thanks for the memories.

Cowboyography was his greatest album IMHO. Cowboy Pride is an incredible piece of songwriting as are some of the others on the album. "My Own Heart's Delight" is another good one. I saw him live in 1992 in Lea Park AB.

I always thought Renegade was one of his best. Also liked most of the folk tunes he did with Sylvia. RIP.

Likewise, saw him in a small venue in Denver about 15 years ago. Hard to beat 'Magpie' or 'Navajo Rug'!

I grew up on folk music in the 60's, Ian and Sylvia were one of my favorites. Canada has contributed so much to the folk music scene! We'll be attending Stanfest in Nova Scotia this summer.

RIP Ian. four strong winds is in the top 5 of my all time favorites.
this old world is losing treasures fast.

Bogtrotter,

I'm sure you will have a great time at Stanfest. Just too far for me to travel (I'm in Sweden).

I was very fortunate to see Stan Rogers perform in either 1982 or 1983 and to sit with him, his bother Garnet, and quite a few of the other singers & musicians after the gig.

I recall the warm friendly feeling as we sat around a table and they continued to sing.

I even sang along and nobody told me shut up - although I did sing quietly!

Since then, I've seen Garnet perform three or four times.

For those who are wondering who Stan or Garnet is, here is a youtube link for a song from each of them.

Garnet Rogers: Next Turn of the Wheel

Stan Rogers: Barrett's Privateers (one of the songs I sang along along with in 82 or 83!)

John

jpb;
Good morning and Happy New Year to you my old cyber friend, I trust this finds you well in your northern home.

Thanks for the mention of Stan and Garnet Rogers as they're wonderful as well in my view.

Since I was a prairie kid, the first time I heard this song was running the tractor late one fall night and it stuck with me.



Best to you in 2023 sir.

Dwayne

Tyson's, "Summer Wages", original edition, IS the BC coast during the days of logging and I cannot think of a tune that is so real when compared with how it was.

Otto1217;
Happy New Year my old cyber friend, I hope you're getting decent weather a few valleys east of us and you're all well.

We're having a cold and snowy winter here, in the 38 years we've been in the Okanagan this is the earliest that the snow has arrived and then stayed - with no sign of leaving anytime soon either. Ah well, it makes for good skiing and a decent snowpack which might mean a shorter fire season?

Thanks for the comments on "Summer Wages", the fellows I know from that era told me the very same thing.

All the best to you in 2023.

Dwayne

Aha Dwayne!

I was torn between posting "The Field Behind the Plow" and Barrett's Privateers - both two of my favourites!

I think "The Field Behind the Plow" is a stronger song...

I only went with Barrett's Privateers because of my personal memory of singing the chorus with Stan, Garnett and a bunch of others back in the early eighties.

Your prairie friend now in Sweden,
John

John;
Thanks for the reply.

I want to say Stan Rogers "Northwest Passage" was picked as the #2 "most Canadian" song or something similar? All that to say there are many good songs to choose from and I'd not fault you or anyone for yours.

The story behind "Field Behind the Plow" as I can recall from a CBC radio interview back in the late '70's was that Stan Rogers' tour bus was travelling in the fall from Calgary to either Regina or Winnipeg at night. He couldn't sleep so was sitting up front with the bus driver, saw all the lights of the combines and grain trucks and asked the driver who was crazy enough to be up working at that hour of the night. When the driver replied that was standard practice for prairie farmers it gave him inspiration for the song.

Again for me when I first heard it John, it was likely one side or the other of midnight when I was running something, likely a Versatile 935 pulling a deep tillage cultivator, trying to beat the fast oncoming Saskatchewan winter.

All the very best to you again my friend.

Dwayne

"The Mary Ellen Carter" is one of my favorites from Stan, and Garnets rendition of "Jenny Bryce". We saw him perfom it in Peterborugh NH, and my wife was in tears , as she was about to have our first daughter.