Ian Tyson

[Dave]

Ian Tyson passed away last night at his ranch at age 89. He sang some of the best cowboy music ever produced.

 

[50/50Farms]

Indeed he did. Weather's always perfect where he's going.

 

[50/50Farms]

Something about the specific line "in a great silent land" always hit me. I never knew how to describe so simply the immense spaces of wilderness and the ultimate sum of their beauty until I heard that line. In travels professional and personal I've covered most of the lower half the US from Appalachia to Arizona and up through the Midwest and the most serene and spiritual feeling anywhere is in the right part of the day in a place that is mostly agrarian or wilderness when the sheer silence and scale and austerity of where you are strikes you. He wrote so beautifully, yet so simply. One of my buddies moved to Montana and I had shown him that song and he called me and said "I get that song now"

 

[alacowman1]

eighteen inches of rain..still have it on cassette.

 

[alacowman1]