Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday January 10, 2023: Remembering Ian Tyson

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

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Theme: Remembering Ian Tyson (1933-2022).

Ian Tyson, 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 years 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. 

Two of the songs on the show were inspired by Ian Tyson, the rest were written, or co-written, by him.

Ian & Sylvia- Four Strong Winds

Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)

Fourtold- Four Rode By

Fourtold (Appleseed)

Judy Collins- Someday Soon

Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Elektra)

Bill Garrett- Red Velvet

Bill Garrett (Borealis)

Tom Russell- Short Grass

Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)

Bill Staines- The French Girl

Beneath Some Lucky Star (Red House)

Ian & Sylvia- Lonely Girls

Play One More (Vanguard)

“The Cowboy and the Umbrella” was written by Kim Wallach. In the liner notes to “Chatter of the Finches,” 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.”

Kim Wallach- The Cowboy and the Umbrella

Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)

Wanda Fischer- Friends of Mine

Singing Along with the Radio (Wanda Fischer)

Tom Russell- Play One More

Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)

Anne Hills & Jan Burda- Wild Geese

Don’t Panic (Flying Fish)

Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown- Summer Wages

Friend of Mine (Philo)

Ian & Sylvia- Long Long Time to Get Old

Great Speckled Bird (Stony Plain)

Ian Tyson- Cowboys Don’t Cry

I Outgrew the Wagon (Stony Plain)

David Rea- The Gift

X 7 (Gitsu)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott- Will James

South Coast (Red House)

Michael Martin Murphey- Cowboy Pride

Cowboy Songs (Warner Bros.)

Corb Lund- Road to Las Cruces

Songs My Friends Wrote (New West)

Over the Moon- Moondancer

Moondancer (Over the Moon)

Ian Tyson- Lost Herd

Lost Herd (Stony Plain)

“I’ll Never Leave These Old Horses” was written by Tom Russell, a frequent songwriting collaborator of Ian Tyson’s. It was inspired by a conversation Tom had with Ian.

Tom Russell- I’ll Never Leave These Old Horses

Folk Hotel (Frontera)

Tom Russell & Ian Tyson- Navajo Rug

Cowboy’d All to Hell (Frontera)

Ian Tyson- Wolves No Longer Sing

Carnero Vaquero (Stony Plain)

Ian Tyson- ‘Til the Circle is Through

All the Good’Uns (Stony Plain)

Next week: Songs and Conversation with Shelley Posen.

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--Mike Regenstreif