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| winglo |
Posted - September 18 2009 : 5:06:21 PM
Wow! I hate to see the board become so depressing and negative. So, I just thought I'd say that I listened to the LOTM album (dvd) again today. I haven't really listened to the whole thing in a long time--maybe six months or so. There is some great music on there, as I'm sure you all agree. Anybody else have some great music they've been listening to lately? |
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| winglo |
Posted - September 21 2009 : 7:08:48 PM
Yes, WW. I heard about Mary Travers. It's a loss. |
| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - September 21 2009 : 2:26:18 PM
Gordon Lightfoot has always been a huge favorite of mine. I saw him in concert two or three times back in the 70s. He was here in my area just recently, but I didn't go to see him. His voice is pretty much gone, unfortunately. I also liked Ian and Sylvia Tyson a lot.
My local PBS station just played a special fundraiser show last week, that was a 90th birthday party/concert for Pete Seeger, that took place at Madison Square Garden on May 3rd. Many of the old folkie favorites appeared to pay tribute to Pete: Joan Baez, who at the age of 68, still looks wonderful, but her voice is showing her age; Arlo Guthrie; Tom Paxton; Kris Kristofferson; Emmylou Harris; Taj Mahal; Roger McGuinn; and a number of the younger generation of folkies. It was awesome! What memories it brought back.
And, btw..... Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary died on September 16. What a lovely, cool voice she had. |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - September 19 2009 : 8:22:11 PM
He's probably retired by now, - certainly should be. He's written songs covered by quite a number of folks, ... I tend to be into ballads, - watching some idiot commit assault & battery on a guitar, while screaming into a mike just doesn't work.
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http://www.iantyson.com/
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Tyson has long been one of Canadas most respected singer-songwriters. A pioneer who began his career in the early days of the first folk boom in the 60s, he was one of the first Canadians to break into the American popular music market. In the years that followed he hosted his own TV show, recorded some of the best folk albums ever made, quit the music business and became after years of backbreaking work a rodeo rider and a successful rancher.
But with his songs covered by Neil Young, Judy Collins, Suzy Bogguss, Gordon Lightfoot, Bobby Bare and Ramblin Jack Elliott, among many others, he returned to music with a vengeance in the mid-80s. He found himself able to combine his two separate lives in new songs that explained the reality of western culture and the mindset of a cowboy in a sometimes-alien world.
Tysons list of honours from the Order of Canada to platinum records, Juno Awards and Canadian Country Music Awards is too lengthy to repeat. He tours constantly across Canada and throughout the United States.
Ian Tyson is not a prolific songwriter. There are times when he despairs that he wont write another song but then they come to him, often as he walks along the gravel road. I guess 80 per cent of my songs come on that walk, he says.
Sometimes they come fast; other take a lot longer. Theres one song here, The Ambler Saddle, that seemed to take for ever; Ambler was a legendary man, and there are so many stories about him many from people who knew him and I wanted the song about him to be true to him. And theres another song, This is My Sky, that came in 20 minutes.
Tyson cuts demo versions of his songs in the stone cottage (although the furnace makes such a racket you have to turn it off when youre recording), after hes written down and joined the phrases and snatches of melody hes discovered on his walks down the gravel road. His regular on-the-road accompanists, Gord Matthews (guitar, vocals) and Gord Maxwell (bass, vocals) play a key role in the way the songs develop, and in making the demos.
The recording process that follows takes Tyson a long way from the gravel road just about as far, physically and mentally, as hes prepared to go.
Songs from the Gravel Road was recorded in Toronto with celebrated producer Danny Greenspoon and a backup band of some of the best players in Toronto. And if the likes of guitarist Kevin Breit, horn players Phil Dwyer, Steve McDade and Guido Basso, and drummer Mark Kelso are better known in the jazz community than the world of country music, thats cool with Tyson.
I took a gamble, he says. Theyre young guys, theyre great jazz and pop musicians, and they have no connection with my kind of life. I wanted them to bring a different sensibility to the songs. And they are songs that I couldnt hear with the standard country instrumentation, which is often so mind-numbingly predictable.
The sessions went incredibly fast the group cut five songs in a single afternoon, in part because the demos Tyson had made in the stone cottage were such good guideposts. Now the record is done, and Tyson is settling into another heavy round of touring in Canada and the United States.
Hell miss the Alberta skies, the deer along the gravel road, and he stone cottage. But he wants to share the true stories of a part of Canada too few people know, and the details of lives well lived.
Ian Tyson is one of a kind ... authentic and durable. In the tough world of show business where an artist can consider himself lucky to have one hit and a few good years, Ian Tyson has had two distinctly brilliant careers. Spanning three decades, Tyson has forged a trail of musical innovation. Starting with the legendary folk duo of Ian and Sylvia in the 60's, the trail has culminated with the seminal Cowboyography collection reaching platinum status in the mid 90's.
At the age of 24, Tyson left behind the itinerant logging and rodeo life of British Columbia and hitchhiked to Toronto. Caught up in the folk music revival, he formed, along with a very young Sylvia Fricker, the legendary singing duo of Ian and Sylvia.
The influential folk duo, Ian and Sylvia, married in 1964, recorded over a do zen timeless albums, including their best known and often covered hits - Ian's Four Strong Winds and Someday Soon, and Sylvia's You Were On My Mind.
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| winglo |
Posted - September 19 2009 : 8:01:54 PM
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Originally posted by Monadnock Guide
Most here probably aren't familiar with Ian Tyson, ...
You're right, MG, I am not familiar with him. But, since I do like Gordon Lightfoot, and you mentioned him in your earlier post, we may have similar tastes. Tell me more about Ian Tyson. |
| Kay |
Posted - September 19 2009 : 09:10:39 AM
I like Queen and Mark Knopler too. I've been listening to Robert Palmer. When Bea and I were little and went to visit our Aunt and Grandma we had a tradition of always listening to Robert Palmer, Paula Abdul, and Madonna's album "Breathless" from the movie Dick Tracy. We'd arrive, into the player the tapes would go, and then we'd sing and dance like crazy people!
Kay |
| susquesus |
Posted - September 18 2009 : 8:59:11 PM
I've been into Steely Dan and Queen lately. Really liking "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" from Steely Dan at the moment. |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - September 18 2009 : 8:23:01 PM
Most here probably aren't familiar with Ian Tyson, ... |
| Leah |
Posted - September 18 2009 : 8:14:22 PM
Hi 
I love Mark Knopfler (of the band Dire Straits). He has put out at least 3 albums since Dire Straits and all 3 are very good. His guitar playing is out of this world. Golden Heart is my all time favorite song.
I also love Gordon Lightfoot- |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - September 18 2009 : 6:51:26 PM
How's Gordon Lightfoot sound? |
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