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Thread #18676 Message #186461
Posted By: GUEST,Ray
28-Feb-00 - 07:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: The Mighty Quinn (Bob Dylan)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ian and Sylvia's 'The Mighty Quinn'
BlueJay you are a friend of mine! I have always felt that Ian Tyson has been under-appreciated in the U.S. especially as a CW singer/songwriter. Since their split, he has won a number of Canadian 'grammies' (...I forget what they call their equivalent awards), but gets very little recognition and airplay here in the states. I have always wondered why he hasn't gotten more acceptance from the Nashville Folks. His renditions of Johnny Cash's songs: Big River, Come In Stranger and I Still Miss Someone, are great. And his more recent works reveals a poetic talent to the equal of the likes of Bob Dylan, Garth Brooks and Utah Phillips, to name a few. In fact, his "Cowboy" music, as he calls it, seems to be in the same vein as these three singer/songwriters. Sadly, it is probably this cowboy category that gets his music pigeon-holed (like much of the "folk music" genre) and unrecognized except by his most die-hard fans...and the, not so widespread, Canadian Record Industry. By the way, Sylvia wrote, "You Were On My Mind".