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ian tyson 0 skip to content home the artist about awards legacy fund the dedication the music shop in his own words ian tyson inspiration acoustic guitar ian tyson t shirts contact ian tyson open menu close menu open menu close menu home the artist about awards legacy fund the dedication the music shop in his own words ian tyson inspiration acoustic guitar ian tyson t shirts contact ian tyson home folder the artist back about awards legacy fund the dedication the music folder shop back in his own words ian tyson inspiration acoustic guitar ian tyson t shirts contact the world of ian tyson experience the authenticity of ian tyson the legendary country music singer songwriter and cowboy about ian about ian the stories the stories the music the music photo credit kurt markus he has allowed me to understand where my own background and culture came from ian sang with me on my recording of the rodeo s over and has been very publicly supportive of what i am doing we have done many shows together both in canada and the u s ian is a legend all over the western states his endorsement has really helped my career even last night i was doing a show in texas and someone asked for an ian tyson song corb lund singer songwriter he s got a great way of writing and a great way of bringing a song around i don t think there s anyone like him in the world in my opinion ian was the greatest singer and songwriter i ve ever known ivan daines rodeo cowboy and singer there was this place we used to go and for a nickel you could put a nickel in the jukebox or a quarter whatever in and played this song four strong winds was on it so i used to play it all the time because i that s where i heard it for the first time i love the song i ve always loved it and used to listen to it over and over again it s one of the best actual performances of a song i did it just caught my attention you know there aren t many songs that i ve sang that i didn t write so it was very real yeah i don t think it can get any more real than that neil young singer songwriter the gift what ian tyson left us by jeremy klaszus ian tyson memorial by robert korotyszyn ian tyson the charlie russell of cowboy music by bill borgwardt ian always wants everything to be perfect and even on occasions where he had several shows in a row he would come in daily to rehearse and perhaps try new ideas i was so honoured to be asked by him to work on a few shows in other parts of the province as well don waddle technical services coordinator horizon stage ian invented a whole genre of music bringing the sensibilities of folk music where the songs mean something and marrying it to western dance music we had been touring soft seat theatres with our show but when we got to duchess alta we found out that we were supposed to be playing for a dance we played exactly the same set we would do in a theatre and the dance floor was packed all night you could waltz two step or shuffle to every song we played stewart macdougall keyboardist yeah ian writes great songs great lyricist and always has a good story to tell you know that s my idea of a good lyric the thing about songs they re really not poetry and i think he knows that it s really about the melody the delivery and you know i think the persona of the artist that is delivering it and i think he has that all put together john hiatt singer songwriter tyson performing in vauxhall alberta with cindy church in the early 1980s photo ruth bergen braun vauxhall advance i was working with wayne vold at ranchman s in calgary around 1980 when i first met ian when ian hosted the cfrn edmonton television series sun country from 1982 to 1987 he asked me to play fiddle on the show that led to working in the studio on his ground breaking album cowboyography since i had done so much with ian already ian told me i might as well be part of his travelling band a job which lasted six or more years this cemented myran s legacy as a fiddler and he has never been without work since myran szott band fiddler he was a hard working perfectionist what i learned from him was that when working with a vocalist to listen to the vocalist and not step over the vocalist ever he had such a commanding stage presence jeff bradshaw steel player one night when we stopped at a small 60s style motel on the way to phoenix ian and gord were strumming guitars when i looked out the window to see a hillside of cactus with vultures flying in a circle above i thought you can t get any more western than this i just loved it and can still see it i like a lot of different types of music but it s not too often you get to play music of that quality in any genre and ian s was of the highest quality gord matthews band guitar ian s a real guy he doesn t seem to hide things it doesn t seem to me i just really enjoy listening to his music cause it s very authentic very authentic canadian country singer canadian country folk whatever you want to call it he s just an original neil young singer songwriter photo credit kurt markus when the album was mixed and ready for final approval ian and i would drive around in his pickup truck listening to it ian felt that his true audience was the working cowboy and the cowboy s listening theatre would be his pickup truck not some fancy music room louis sedmak edmonton recording engineer and guitar player ian asked me if i d be interested in releasing a final album for him one just for his cowboy audience he wanted to call that album cowboyography the album hit right at the time of the cowboy renaissance and became a huge hit reaching platinum sales status and solidifying ian as the greatest cowboy musical artist ever the success of stony plain records is largely due to ian tyson holger petersen stony plain records i truly admire ian s ability to make non country people understand and appreciate what life on the land was like from his point of view even when his voice was failing the audience continued to come knowing they would still hear a really good story in the 35 year history of the theatre nobody has played here more than ian tyson brandi watson horizon stage photo credit jay dusard his writing is so vivid and he paints pictures with every single line so you see the story unfolding in the song i try to base my own writing on ian s style i first met ian when i was singing four strong winds at a calgary stampede event at the oh ranch ian walked by and said great song eli barsi cowgirl singer ian was the real deal cowboy he had a ranch at whitby ontario before coming west we appeared on his television show a couple of times ian has always been one of canada s most prolific songwriters we always perform summer wages at all our shows and were hugely honoured to perform it on the gift tribute album bruce good the good brothers growing up in a rural area riding horses and living the western lifestyle i first became interested in the songs of wilf carter then i heard ian tyson which took it to another level for me shortly after being exposed to that i started writing always using ian s music as sort of a touchstone allen christie singer songwriter ian has been my greatest influence as a singer songwriter and i ve sorta known him for almost 50 years más o menos i have sheer admiration for his art and journey and for that matchless song catalogue i was the kid in the front row in the 1960s at every ian and sylvia show that rolled through california years later i ended up cowriting songs with both ian and sylvia my heroes including at least 10 with ian tom russell singer songwriter photo credit kurt markus ian tyson