Tim Horton
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Post by Tim Horton on Dec 30, 2022 18:17:16 GMT 10
202212-29... The Canadian music legend Ian Tyson passed at the age of 89.. He was a very talented northern folk and cowboy, country music performer..
My two favorites are his greatest hit.. Four Strong Winds and second most well known song, Springtime in Alberta..
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Post by Stealth on Dec 30, 2022 22:46:52 GMT 10
I can't say I know his name, but I will say that those two songs very much remind me of endless car trips with my grandmother during the school holidays. She must have had very similar taste in music I think! Definitely made me smile. A good wicket at 89, sounds like he's earned a rest.
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Post by Tim Horton on Dec 31, 2022 10:49:20 GMT 10
I can't say I know his name, but I will say that those two songs very much remind me of endless car trips with my grandmother during the school holidays. She must have had very similar taste in music I think! Definitely made me smile. A good wicket at 89, sounds like he's earned a rest. === Unless you have a kind of local ...folk.. taste in music he would not be well known to many I suspect.. Kind of like your local artist Slim Dusty filled a small corner of good folk entertainment.. As well as Waltzing Matilda, another of my favorites is The Pub With No Beer....
Sounds like your grandma would be fun to know..
Ian Tyson did a lot of local, regional songs about cowboy life.. Things about the Calgary Stampede, and other places, history and events most would not know about from the history of the Canadian and US Rocky Mountains..
Another favorite of mine is "The Gift" This about a late 1800s, early 1900s cowboy, artist, sculptor named Charles Russel... His work is famous and valuable, but only to a small number of people that know the history..
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