The Legend, Ian Tyson

A Canadian icon reflects on the things that matter to him: The prairies, the legends of the West, and the changing life of a veteran artist Tyson has long been one of Canada's most respected singer-songwriters. A pioneer who began his career in the early days of the first folk boom in the ?60s, he was one of the first Canadians to break into the American popular music market. In the years that followed he hosted his own TV show, recorded some of the best ?folk? albums ever made, quit the music business and became ? after years of backbreaking work ? a rodeo rider and a successful rancher. But with his songs covered by Neil Young, Judy Collins, Suzy Bogguss, Gordon Lightfoot, Bobby Bare and Ramblin? Jack Elliott, among many others, he returned to music with a vengeance in the mid-?80s. He found himself able to combine his two separate lives in new songs that explained the reality of ?western culture? and the mindset of a cowboy in a sometimes-alien world. Tyson considers himself a very fortunate man. His music career takes him to concerts all over North America, where he is able to ride the deserts and sage hills with his friends from Alberta to Durango, Colorado! Ian Tyson