The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is Remembering Ian Tyson.
Ian – who died on December 29th at age 89 – was one of Canada’s greatest and most influential singers and songwriters, from his days in the 1960s and early-‘70s as half of the legendary folk duo Ian & Sylvia, through his focus on country music in the later Ian & Sylvia days and the early part of his solo career, and to his revitalization and virtual reinvention of cowboy music from the early-1980s through the 2000s. All but two of the songs on this show were written, or co-written by Ian Tyson.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Four Strong Winds Ian & Sylvia - Four Strong Winds - Vanguard
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| Four Rode By Fourtold - Fourtold - Appleseed
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| Someday Soon Judy Collins - Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Elektra
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| Red Velvet Bill Garrett - Bill Garrett - Borealis
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| Short Grass Tom Russell - Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia - True North
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| The French Girl Bill Staines - Beneath Some Lucky Star - Red House
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| Lonely Girls Ian & Sylvia - Play One More - Vanguard
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| "The Cowboy and the Umbrella" was written by Kim Wallach. In the liner notes, Kim writes that the song is “a fictionalized account of watching Ian Tyson judge the Kerrville Folk Festival in the ‘80s. I moved the setting to the bar at YO Ranch Hilton.” |
| The Cowboy and the Umbrella Kim Wallach - Chatter of the Finches - Black Socks Press |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| Friends of Mine Wanda Fischer - Singing Along with the Radio - Wanda Fischer
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| Play One More Tom Russell - Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia - True North
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| Wild Geese Anne Hills & Jan Burda - Don’t Panic - Flying Fish
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| Summer Wages Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown - Friend of Mine - Philo
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| Long Long Time to Get Old Ian & Sylvia - Great Speckled Bird - Stony Plain
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| Cowboys Don't Cry Ian Tyson - I Outgrew the Wagon - Stony Plain
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| The Gift David Rea - X 7 - Gitsu
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| Will James Ramblin' Jack Elliott - South Coast - Red House
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| Cowboy Pride Michael Martin Murphey - Cowboy Songs - Warner Bros.
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| Road to Las Cruces Corb Lund - Songs My Friends Wrote - New West
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| Moondancer Over the Moon - Moondancer - Over the Moon
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| Lost Herd Ian Tyson - Lost Herd - Stony Plain
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| "I’ll Never Leave These Old Horses" was written by Tom Russell, a frequent songwriting collaborator of Ian Tyson's. It was based on a conversation Tom had with Ian. |
| I’ll Never Leave These Old Horses Tom Russell - Folk Hotel - Frontera |
| Navajo Rug Tom Russell & Ian Tyson - Cowboy’d All to Hell - Frontera
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| Wolves No Longer Sing Ian Tyson - Carnero Vaquero - Stony Plain
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| ‘Til the Circle is Through Ian Tyson - All the Good'Uns - Stony Plain
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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So looking forward to this show. Ian & Sylvia, Sylvia solo and Ian solo have been on my playlist for many decades.
1:06 PM, January 6th, 2023