“Summer Wages”, by Canadian country artist Ian Tyson appears on his album “Cowboyography” The Western Writers of America voted it one of the Top 100 Western Songs of all time.
Love this version Ian.
Ian Dawson Tyson CM AOE (born September 25, 1933) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote a significant number of modern folk songs, including “Four Strong Winds” and “Someday Soon“, performed with partner Sylvia Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia.
Tyson was born to British immigrants in Victoria, and grew up in Duncan B.C.[1] 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.[2] He made his singing debut at the Heidelberg Café in Vancouver in 1956 and played with a rock and roll band, The Sensational Stripes. He graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1958.
Ian Tyson Discography:
| 973 | Ol’ Eon | 81 | ||
| 1978 | One Jump Ahead of the Devil | |||
| 1983 | Old Corrals and Sagebrush | |||
| 1984 | Ian Tyson | |||
| 1987 | Cowboyography | Platinum | ||
| 1989 | I Outgrew the Wagon | 12 | 74 | Gold |
| 1991 | And Stood There Amazed | 16 | ||
| 1994 | Eighteen Inches of Rain | 9 | ||
| 1996 | All the Good ‘Uns | 21 | Gold | |
| 1999 | Lost Herd | |||
| 2002 | Live at Longview | |||
| 2005 | Songs from the Gravel Road | |||
| 2008 | Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories | |||
| 2011 | Songs from the Stone House | |||
| 2012 | Raven Singer | |||
| 2013 | All the Good ‘Uns Vol. 2 | |||
| 2015 | Carnero Vaquero |
Wikipedia Says:
Tyson became a Member of the Order of Canada in October 1994 and was inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence in 2006. In 2003, Tyson received a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award.
He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, with Sylvia, in 1992.
Ian Tyson was inducted into the Mariposa Hall of Fame, with Sylvia, in 2006
He was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989. (Sylvia Tyson was inducted in 2003.)
The song Four Strong Winds, written by Ian Tyson, was named as the greatest Canadian song of all time by the CBC-Radio program 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version in 2005.
An announcement in July 2019 stated that Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson would be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, individually, not as a duo. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation article stated that “the duo’s 1964’s hit, Four Strong Winds, has been deemed one of the most influential songs in Canadian history”. The report also referenced the song You Were on My Mind, written by Sylvia Tyson, as well as her four albums (1975–1980).
A lot of good times and a lot of good music Ian.
Thanks.
If Bromberg does your song that’s a real tip of the hat.
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