Oh Boy! People who know and love Ian & Sylvia!
I grew up listening to them, used to make my dad put on their Northern Journeys record to go to sleep to when I was small. That has to be my all-time favorite folk LP.
In my opinion, not only is Ian Tyson one of the great songwriters of our time, but the whole Ian & Sylvia sound from their early recordings was amazing. I love the instrumentation on "You Were on my Mind"-even an autoharp solo break! (BTW, my CD credits list Tyson AND Fricker as authors of that song)
I've always loved Ian's voice...they did a version of Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain" that is just lovely.
I agree that Mr. Tyson hasn't recieved nearly the recognition that he should as a songwriter, but he's done a bit better recently. When Patty Loveless had a huge country hit with "Someday Soon" a while back, Ian put a new barn on his ranch with the royalty checks from it and named it after her!!!