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Canadian country and folk music legend and legendary Alberta troubador Ian Tyson has died at the age of 89, his family has confirmed.

“RIP the great Ian Tyson. We weren’t looking for a hit or radio play or anything like that,” Tyson has said. Big night for me to meet all of these legends,” he tweeted Thursday. I just never thought of it as folk material, which it was, of course.” “It’s hard to put into words what he’s meant to the Canadian music scene,” he said. Bob (Dylan) blazed the trail into the wilderness, into unknown territory,” Tyson told Postmedia in 2019. Their band, Great Speckled Bird, rivalled the Byrds and other groups which helped create modern country, a decade before the Urban Cowboy phase of contemporary ‘new traditionalists,’ ” it said. Thankful we crossed trails this side of the Great Divide,” said Brandt. Authentic to the core. Article content He’s reinvented himself two or three times.”

Canadian folk and country legend Ian Tyson has died. Family of the long-lauded singer-songwriter confirmed he died at home, at his ranch in southern Alberta ...

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The duo Ian & Sylvia wrote some of Canada's most famous songs, including Four Strong Wings, once voted the greatest song in Canadian history.

The cowboys are all gone.” His marriage to Sylvia, and their joint musical career, had ended, and Tyson was “disillusioned with the Canadian country music scene.” In 2005, after four RCMP officers were killed in a massacre near Mayerthorpe, Alta., Tyson sang the song at their funeral. In the 1960s, having hitchhiked to Toronto, Tyson met Sylvia Fricker. Tyson was born in Victoria, B.C., in 1933, and grew up in Duncan, a city on the southern edge of Vancouver Island. Article content

TORONTO -- Ian Tyson, the Canadian folk legend turned cowboy storyteller who penned "Four Strong Winds" as one half of Ian & Sylvia, has died at age 89.

In 1987, he won a Juno Award for country male vocalist of the year and five years later he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame alongside Sylvia Tyson. "I wanted to be honest about it and fair," he said in an interview the year his book was released. Tyson long held a reputation in the industry for being prickly, which he actually referenced several times in his book (using the adjective "irascible." In the latter section of his career, his voice had a grittier, more gravelly quality. It's paying off, I'm playing pretty good, in spite of all the broken bones and so on over the years." She was only 17 at the time, but Tyson -- then in his mid-40s -- pursued a relationship with her despite the gossiping of locals scandalized by the couple's age difference. Though the album was his third solo release, it was his first devoted entirely to Western material. The pair married in 1964 and continued releasing new records with regularity (their '65 album "Early Morning Rain" included a composition by Lightfoot, who was then far from a household name). The singer-songwriter was a part of the influential folk movement in Toronto with his first wife, Sylvia Tyson. Once he graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1958, Tyson hitchhiked to Toronto. Tyson soon met a kindred spirit named Sylvia Fricker and they began a relationship -- onstage and off -- in 1959. Their self-titled debut was released in 1962, a collection of mostly traditional songs.

The music world is mourning a Canadian legend. On Thursday morning, folk and country musician Ian Tyson passed away, his former wife and music partner ...

He wrote so many incredible songs. He was a true original. [December 29, 2022] RIP the great Ian Tyson. Big night for me to meet all of these legends RS “I sat in with a young band at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto and they wanted me to do ‘Four Strong Winds’ with them.

A rancher for most of his life, he began his music career as half of the folk-era duo Ian and Sylvia and was also celebrated for his commitment to the ...

Mr. The place filled with cowboy hats and books — “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a Georgia O’Keeffe biography, a dictionary, “The Western Buckle: History, Art, Culture, Function,” Michael Ondaatje’s “Divisadero.” The magnet on his refrigerator reading: “Life is tough. His own life remained complicated, too, including both an endless array of honors and awards and a 1986 marriage to a teenager, Twylla Biblow, less than half his age, that ended in divorce in 2008. Over time, he became a familiar Canadian presence in his trademark cowboy hat and stiff-legged gait, ranching, recording and performing at concerts and events like the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev. In 1986, his “Cowboyography” earned platinum status in Canada. And after hosting a show on Canada’s national television network, between 1970 and 1975, he had almost dropped out of music when he reinvented himself less as a folk act than as a cowboy and Western one. Tyson’s first song, which he said he wrote in about a half-hour, spurred on by Mr. It was, he said, about “a lovely Greek girl, I was always leaving and regretting it,” in Vernon, British Columbia. Tyson as “movie-star handsome” and “the best looking of all the cowboy dudes in Greenwich Village” in her 2008 memoir, “A Freewheelin’ Time.” The high-powered manager Albert Grossman, who managed Mr. Young, in the 2006 Jonathan Demme concert film “Heart of Gold,” recalled being 16 or 17 and spending all his money playing the Ian and Sylvia version of “Four Strong Winds” over and over on the jukebox at a restaurant near Winnipeg. Performances of his songs like “Four Strong Winds” by Mr. Cash was on the other side of the border.

His classic, “Four Strong Winds,” is widely considered to be the best Canadian song of all time.

Tyson was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 1994. [rodeo cowboy](https://canadianmusichalloffame.ca/inductee/ian-sylvia/),” which was borne out by his ranch near Longview. IAN TYSON was the real deal. RIP the great Ian Tyson. He's a guy who's most embodied the region in art, musically at least," Alberta country star Corb Lund told The song “La Primera” spawned a young-adult fiction book, La Primera: The Story of Wild Mustangs in 2009, while he co-wrote a suitably rodeo-esque autobiography with journalist Jeremy Klaszus in 2010, The Long Trail: My Life in the West. His first dream was reportedly to be a “ Tyson hitchhiked to Toronto and rose to prominence in Yorkville’s burgeoning folk music scene, where he met Sylvia Fricker. “Four Strong Winds” was reportedly inspired by Evinia Pulos, whom Tyson met while they were both students in Vancouver. He made his professional debut singing with a backing band at the Heidelberg Café in 1956, before graduating in 1958. “Four Strong Winds” has been covered by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Blue Rodeo, Sarah McLachlan, and many more. His ex-wife and former musical partner, Sylvia Tyson, confirmed the news to

Canadian folk legend Ian Tyson, best known for the hit single "Four Strong Winds" as one half of Ian & Sylvia, has died at age 89.