b. Ian Dawson Tyson, 25 September 1933, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Ian Tyson's father went to Canada in 1906 with dreams of being a cowboy and passed on his aspirations to his son, who worked on a farm, entered amateur rodeos and worked as a lumberjack. He says, "I'm always grateful for my logging and rodeo days because that's where the songs come from." While recovering from a rodeo injury, Tyson taught himself guitar and then played "rockabilly in the chop-suey bars of Vancouver". He says, "I couldn't play very well as I only knew A, D and E. That's when I wrote 'Summer Wages'." In 1959, he met Sylvia Fricker (b. 19 September 1940, Chatham, Ontario, Canada) at the Village Corner, a Toronto club. They formed a folk duo, Ian And Sylvia, and were married in 1964. They moved to Greenwich Village and were signed by Bob Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman.

Listen to Ian & Sylvia at Finetune.

• (2007)  Vanguard Visionaries
• (2006)  Ian And Sylvia
• (2006)  Play One More
• (2006)  Someday Soon
• (2006)  Four Strong Winds
• (2006)  The Best Of
• (2006)  Long Long Time
• (2006)  Best Of The Vanguard Years
• (2006)  Northern Journey
• (2006)  Early Morning Rain
• (2006)  So Much For Dreaming
• (2006)  Nashville
• (2006)  Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings 4-CD
• (1996)  Live At Newport

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