Ian Tyson

Ian Dawson Tyson CM, AOE (born 25 September 1933) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Four Strong Winds". He was also one half of the duo Ian & Sylvia.

Career

Tyson was born to British immigrants in Victoria in 1933, and grew up in Duncan B.C. A rodeo rider in his late teens and early twenties, he took up the guitar while recovering from an injury he sustained in a fall. He has named fellow Canadian country artist Wilf Carter as a musical influence. He made his singing debut at the Heidelberg Café in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1956 and played with a rock and roll band, "The Sensational Stripes." After graduation from the Vancouver School of Art in 1958, Tyson moved to Toronto, Ontario where he commenced a job as a commercial artist. There he performed in local clubs and in 1959 began to sing on occasion with Sylvia Fricker. By early 1959 Tyson and Fricker were performing part-time at the Village Corner as "Ian & Sylvia." The pair became a full-time musical act in 1961 and married four years later. In 1969, they formed and fronted the group The Great Speckled Bird. Residing in southern Alberta, Tyson toured all over the world.

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Podcasts:

Ian Tyson

ALBUMS

All The Good'Uns Vol. 2

Released 2013

Raven Singer

Released 2012

Raven Singer

Released 2012

Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories

Released 2008

Songs from the Gravel Road

Released 2005

Live at Longview

Released 2002

Lost Herd

Released 1999

All the Good'uns

Released 1996

Eighteen Inches of Rain

Released 1994

And Stood There Amazed

Released 1991

I Outgrew The Wagon

Released 1989

Cowboyography

Released 1987

Old Corrals and Sagebrush & Other Cowboy Culture Classics

Released 1983

One Jump Ahead of the Devil

Released 1978

Ol' Eon

Released 1973

Ian Tyson From The Stone House

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PLAYLIST TIME:

Summers Gone

by: Ian Tyson

Summer's gone- goin' gone
pale moon in a raptor sky
days as warm as a lover's kiss
just before she says goodbye
cattle all hangin' in the high country
like this was never going to end
big white cowboy goin' to bring' em down
summer's gone, goodbye
Venus comes in the autumn dust
and she rules the southern sky
she hears our songs, she sees our tears
and she sends us no reply
where is the girl with the golden hair
turned that horse around and was gone
all the snow boots way too small
left behind, goodbye
all the snow boots way too small
left behind, goodbye_____




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