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Use Canadian English|date=October 2011Infobox musical artist| | name = Ian Tyson| image = Ian Tyson (4396806840).jpg| image_size =| caption = Tyson in 2010| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Ian Dawson Tyson| birth_date = birth date and age|df=yes|1933|09|25| birth_place = Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria , British Columbia , Canada | origin = Toronto , Ontario , Canada| Instruments = Singing|Vocals , guitar | genre = Country music|Country , Folk music|folk , Western music (North America)|Western , country-rock | occupation = Musician , songwriter , record producer|producer , arrangement|arranger | years_active = 1959& ndash;present| label = Stony Plain Records|Stony Plain , A& M Records|A& M | associated_acts = Ian & Sylvia , Great Speckled Bird (band)|Great Speckled Bird | website = URL|iantyson.comUse dmy dates|date=October 2011 Ian Tyson Order of Canada|CM , Alberta Order of Excellence|AOE (born 25 September 1933) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, best known for his song " Four Strong Winds ". He was also one half of the duo Ian & Sylvia .
Career
Tyson was born to British immigrants in Victoria in 1933, and grew up in Duncan B.C.cite web |url= http://alternativetrends.com/fall-winter-2010/features/ian-tyson |title=Ian Tyson: The many faces of a Canadian icon|publisher= alternativetrends.com |accessdate=2011-03-05|author= Kolya Witko|year= 2009|month= Fall/Winter 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. http://books.google.ca/books? id=eQkEAAAAMBAJ& lpg=PP1& pg=PT77#v=onepage& q=& f=false "Ian's 1st Solo Album Marks Return To Country Roots", Billboard, 23 November 1974, p.66 He made his singing debut at the Heidelberg Café in Vancouver , British Columbia in 1956 and played with a rock and roll band, "The Sensational Stripes." After graduation from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design|Vancouver School of Art in 1958, Tyson moved to Toronto , Ontario where he commenced a job as a commercial artist. There he performed in local clubs and in 1959 began to sing on occasion with Sylvia Tyson|Sylvia Fricker . By early 1959 Tyson and Fricker were performing part-time at the Village Corner as " Ian & Sylvia ." The pair became a full-time musical act in 1961 and married four years later. In 1969, they formed and fronted the group Great Speckled Bird (band)|The Great Speckled Bird . Residing in southern Alberta , Tyson toured all over the world.
In 1989 he was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame .
From 1971 to 1975, he hosted a national television program, The Ian Tyson Show , on CTV Television Network|CTV , based on the 1970-71 season music show Nashville North , later titled Nashville Now .cite web | url= http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php? id=125 | title=Ian Tyson Show | first=Pip | last=Wedge | date=February 2003 | accessdate=2009-07-01 | publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation
In 2005, CBC Radio One listeners chose his song " Four Strong Winds " as the greatest Canadian song of all time on the series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version . There was strong momentum for him to be nominated the Greatest Canadian, but he fell short. He has been a strong influence on many Canadian artists, including Neil Young , who recorded "Four Strong Winds" for Comes a Time (1978). Johnny Cash would also record the same song for American V: A Hundred Highways (2006). Judy Collins recorded a version of his popular song, " Someday Soon (Ian Tyson song)|Someday Soon ", in 1968.
Bob Dylan and the Band recorded his song "One Single River" in Woodstock, NY in 1967. The recording can be found on the unreleased List of Basement tapes Songs|Genuine Basement Tapes , vol. I. cite book |title= Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions 1960-1994 |last=Heylin|first=Clinton |year=1995|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|page=55|url= http://www.clinton-heylin.com/Bob%20Dylan%20Recording.htm |accessdate=2012-3-19
In 2006, Tyson sustained irreversible scarring to his vocal cords as a result of a concert at the Havelock Country Jamboree followed a year later by a virus contracted during a flight to Denver .cite web |archiveurl= http://www.encyclopediecanadienne.ca/index.cfm? PgNm=TCE& Params=M1ARTM0013319 |title= Ian Tyson's Brave New CD|publisher= Macleans|accessdate= 2011-03-05|date= 2008-12-01|archivedate= 2008-12-01 This resulted in a notable loss of the remarkable quality and range he was known for; he has self-described his new sound as "gravelly".cite web |url= http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm? PgNm=TCE& Params=U1ARTU0003507 |title= Ian Tyson|publisher=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com |accessdate=2011-03-05 Notwithstanding, he released the album "From Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories" in 2008 to high critical praise. He was nominated for a 2009 Canadian Folk Music Awards for Solo Artist of the Year. The album includes a song about Canadian hockey broadcasting icon Don Cherry and the passing of his wife Rose, a rare Tyson cover written by Toronto songwriter Jay Aymar .
In 2010, Tyson put out his memoir The Long Trail: My Life in the West .cite book |last= Tyson |first= Ian |coauthors= Klaszus, Jeremy |title= The Long Trail: My Life in the West |publisher= Random House |year= 2010 |month= October |isbn= 978-0-307-35935-3 Co-written with Calgary journalist Jeremy Klaszus , the book "alternates between autobiography and a broader study of Tyson's relationship to the 'West' — both as a fading reality and a cultural ideal."cite news | url= http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Truly+Tyson/3715598/story.html | title=Truly Tyson | first=Eric | last=Volmers | date=23 October 2010 | publisher= Calgary Herald | accessdate=2010-11-01 CBC's Michael Enright (broadcaster)|Michael Enright said the book is like Tyson himself — "straightforward, unglazed and honest."cite interview |last= Tyson |first= Ian |subjectlink= Ian Tyson |interviewer= Michael Enright (broadcaster)|Michael Enright |url= http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/2010/10/october-24-2010-1.html |program= Sunday Edition |callsign= Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC |city= Toronto |date= 2010-10-24 |accessdate= 2010-11-01
Tyson has also written a book of young-adult fiction about his song "La Primera", called La Primera: The Story of Wild Mustangs .cite book |title= La primera : the story of wild mustangs|last= Tyson|first= Ian|others= Paintings by Adeline Halvorson|year= 2009|publisher= Tundra Books |location= Toronto|isbn= 978-0-88776-863-7|oclc= 226999077
Personal
Tyson's first marriage, to Sylvia Fricker Tyson , ended in an amicableIan: "Silvia and I had parted, amicably, and I came out to Alberta..." in documentary cite web | url= http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=F44XXgLcdus& feature=related | title=Songs from the Gravel Road | date=2010 | accessdate=2012-02-11 | publisher=Bravo network divorce in 1975. Their son Clay (Clayton Dawson Tyson,"They're partners in life as well as in music, which must have its difficult moments like the prospect of having to sing with someone you were maybe not speaking to. But they certainly have made that work, what with that thing rolling around on the rug, young Clayton Dawson, herein and hereafter referred to as 'Mr. Spoons.'" From the jacket notes (by John Court) to Ian and Sylvia 's LP "Lovin' Sound", MGM 4388, 1967. Quoted in http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm? threadid=10363#71474 Mudcat Forum by Dale Rose, 1999-04-16; accessed 2011-05-08. born 1966cite web | url= http://www.livinglegendsmusic.com/library.php? personID=4942 | title=Clay Tyson | publisher=Living Legends Music | date=2006-2008 | accessdate=2011-04-19 ) was also a musical performer, and then moved to a career modifying racing bikes.cite news | url= http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/article676674.ece | title=Tyson comes clean | first=Marsha | last=Lederman | date=30 March 2009 | publisher= The Globe and Mail | accessdate=2009-07-01 cite news | url= http://www.nme.com/artists/ian-and-sylvia | title=Biography (Ian Tyson) | publisher= NME | accessdate=2009-07-01
Ian Tyson married Twylla Dvorkin in 1986, and their daughter Adelita was born c.|1987.cite web | url= http://archives.cbc.ca/society/celebrations/clips/12016/ | title=A true son of the west | publisher= CBC Television | date=16 November 2000 | accessdate=2009-07-01 | work=Canada Now | first=David | last=Ingram Tyson's second marriage ended in divorce which was made official in early 2008, several years after separating from Dvorkin.cite news | url= http://www2.macleans.ca/tag/ian-tyson/ | title=The end of love and a famous voice | first=Brian D. | last=Johnson | date=24 November 2008 | accessdate=2009-07-01 cite web | url= http://www.iantyson.com/pages/reviews.asp | title=Recent Reviews | first=Philip | last=Marchand | publisher= Toronto Star | date=6 February 2006
Awards and recognition
Tyson became a Member of the Order of Canada in October 1994, and was inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence in 2006.cite web | url= http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp? lang=e& TypeID=orc& id=3403 | title=Order of Canada citation: Ian Tyson, C.M., A.O.E. | accessdate=2009-07-01 | publisher=Governor General of Canada cite web | url= http://www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca/aoe/2006_tyson.cfm | title=Ian Tyson OC, D Litt (hon), LLD (hon) | publisher=Government of Alberta | accessdate=2009-07-01
Tribute recordings
A tribute CD to Ian Tyson, The Gift , was released in 2007 on Stony Plain Records featuring "Someday Soon" done by Doug Andrew with Buddy Cage on pedal steel guitar (Buddy played in Great Speckled Bird), "Four Strong Winds" recorded by Blue Rodeo, plus another 13 of Tyson's best known songs done by major folk and country artists. The album is titled after a song of Tyson's, which itself is a tribute to Charles M. Russell .
Cite web|title= Tyson, Ian|url= http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm? PgNm=TCE& Params=U1ARTU0003507 |work= Encyclopedia of Canadian Musicians|publisher= Historica Foundation of Canada|accessdate= 2009-07-15
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External links
http://www.iantyson.com/ Official Website
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Persondata | NAME = Tyson, Ian | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Canadian musician | DATE OF BIRTH = 25 September 1933 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Tyson, Ian Category:1933 births Category:Living people Category:People from Victoria, British Columbia Category:Canadian country singers Category:Canadian folk singers Category:Canadian male singers Category:Members of the Alberta Order of Excellence Category:Members of the Order of Canada Category:Musicians from Toronto Category:Canadian country singer-songwriters Category:Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductees Category:Juno Award winners
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