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 SPCD 1339 Genre: Country Release Date: November 11, 2008 $ 20.98 CD Ian Tyson Yellowhead to Yellowstone and other Love Stories Tyson’s new songs reflect two difficult years as Canada's most iconic songwriter faces the prospect of his senior years. “Growing old is not for wimps,” he says—and his legion of fans will understand and fight the future with him. Emphasis tracks: “My Cherry Coloured Rose,” about Don Cherry and written by Jay Almar and the ballad “Yellowhead To Yellowstone,” co-written with Stewart MacDougall. 1. Yellowhead To Yellowstone (6:01) 2. Fiddler Must Be Paid (3:45) 3. Lioness (3:24) 4. Ross Knox (2:44) 5. Blaino's Song (4:17) 6. Estrangement (3:29) 7. My Cherry Coloured Rose (3:41) 8. Bill Kane (3:55) 9. Go This Far (3:48) 10. Love Never Comes At All (4:54) Click on the images for links to Stony Plain Records.com |
At 75, Ian
Tyson still has great stories to sing about
 Iconic Canadian songwriter and singer Ian
Tyson has had a tough two years since his last album, Songs from the
Gravel Road . Among his woes: a difficult divorce followed by another
broken love affair, and more recently a 75th birthday which he faced
with
a mixture of satisfaction and regret.Now, with release of a new album - Yellowhead to Yellowstone and other Love Stories on Nov. 10 - long-time fans will discover something else: Ian Tyson has a new voice. Grainy, gravelly, and deeply emotional today, one of the smoothest voices in Canadian music is now dramatically different. What happened? “Well, a couple of years ago,” says Tyson in a matter-of-fact tone, “I played the Havelock Jamboree, a big outdoor show in Ontario. I fought the sound system — and I lost. “I knew I’d hurt my voice, and it was recovering slowly when I was hit with a bad virus, which seemed to last forever. My old voice isn’t coming back, the doctors told me, so I’ve had to get used to this new one.” That has been a challenge, Tyson says, but he says audiences have warmed to it. “They seem to pay more attention, now, to the lyrics and the stories in the songs. And while I’ve lost some of the bottom end of my voice, the top range, oddly enough, is still there.” The title song of the CD was co-written by Tyson with Stewart MacDougall, and tells the story of a pack of wolves transported from the Yellowhead Pass to Yellowstone Park, where the species had become extinct — told in the voice of one of the wolves who made the journey. Another remarkable song, contributed by Toronto songwriter Jay Aymar, is about hockey commentator Don Cherry and the death of his beloved wife, Rose. The eight new songs by Tyson cover a range of emotions and stories relating to Alberta’s cultural landscape and the disappearing cowboy, as well as his personal life. The writer rarely tells exactly what they’re about, but expects his listeners to understand where the songs are coming from. It’s Tyson’s 14th album for the Edmonton-based roots music label Stony Plain, and was produced by Nashville’s Harry Stinson, who did three CDs for the label with Corb Lund, and who’s worked in recent times with George Jones, Mary Stuart, Rodney Crowell and Steve Earle. |
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second CD in 10 years is 'a gem'C7 Wilfred Langmaid On the record Ian Tyson: Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories - Stony Plain Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories is only the second album from Canadian legend Ian Tyson in the past 10 years. His career began in the 60s as part of the husband-and-wife team Ian and Sylvia and took a country-rock turn at the end of that decade with The Great Speckled Bird. He has been a solo artist since the 1970s. Album number 11 in a span of 25 years, Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories again gives good witness to a austere and authentic cowboy-country sound that is uniquely Tyson. This is despite a really tragic loss. As recently as two years ago at age 73, his rich tenor was still molasses smooth and instantly recognizable. That is gone now as a result of straining his voice in an outdoor show and then contracting a virus. However, his voice is still tuneful, oddly distinctive and appealing. More significantly, his lyrical tales and song structures are still drawn from traditional western culture - both western Canada and the western United States - an era of roots cowboy life that transcends borders and time. Lyrically, the tales are of the same calibre and style as such roots triumphs as 1983's Old Corrals and Sagebrush and 1987's multi-platinum triumph Cowboyography. They are tuneful, understated melodies which serve as vehicles for tales of three basic categories: the life of the rancher which has been Tyson's own life for over three decades; tales of the land told from the perspective of animals who dwell in that land; and tales of love gained or lost. Ranch-hand songs are sincere and authentic in Tyson's hand, and this album includes such gems as the two-step Blaino's Song and the epitaphs Ross Knox and Bill Kane. The love songs are poignant and raw, which makes sense when one considers that Tyson went through a divorce earlier this decade and a more recent relationship dissolution. However, there is equal beauty in the tales of love lost (Fiddler Must Be Paid and Estrangement) as in the rejoicings of love fulfilled (Go This Far, Love Never Comes At All). That said, the standouts on this particular album are two tales told from the perspective of animals who have lived their lives with strength and dignity on the land. There is the relative pop sheen of Lioness, and there is the album's crowning glory from whence the album title comes, the lead track Yellowhead To Yellowstone. It is an epic tale of wolves transported from the Yellowhead Pass to Yellowstone Park, where they had become extinct. Told in the voice of the male wolf who made the journey and lived a life now ending as the alpha male, it is cowritten by Tyson and Fredericton-born Stewart MacDougall. To many music fans across Canada, MacDougall is an Edmonton singer-songwriter best known as the penner of material for everyone from k.d. lang and Randy Travis to Tyson and Laura Vinson. They might also remember him as the keyboardist from stints with lang's 1980s band The Reclines and with the Great Western Orchestra. However, he remains etched in the minds of Fredericton music buffs for his work here as a native son with the '70s bar band Freight Liners and a subsequent stint with the country rockers Buckshot. This cowrite is an album highlight, but the album's one misstep is a well-intentioned tribute to Don Cherry's wife Rose Cherry called Cherry Coloured Rose. With all due respect to Toronto songwriter Jay Aymar, he is shown to be way out of his league on an album with nine songs written by one of Canada's most unique and gifted lyricists. If, as is very likely, this is Tyson's final studio album, he has given us a gem. Source - The Daily Gleaner ,
Fredericton New Brunswick, Published Saturday February 21st, 2009
Fredericton-based freelance writer Wilfred
Langmaid has reviewed albums in The Daily Gleaner since 1981, and is a
past judge for both the Junos and the East Coast Music Awards.
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FRIDAY Sept 12 Stewart McKelvey Hoodoo House 560 King St. The Electric Boogie: Freightliner Re-Union 11:30PM |
 The
reunion of these five
Fredericton-bred musicians might be better described as the
continuation of a collaboration that began in the seventies. Originally billed as Vince Packard and the Freightliners, Tom Blizzard (drums), Peter Palmer (bass and vocal), David Palmer (guitar and pedal steel) and Rollie Waddingham (lead vocal), all veterans of the Fredericton rock scene, got into country and began playing local taverns, initially employing Cedric Bidlake (steel) before recruiting Stewart MacDougall (keyboards and vocal) as the fifth piece. The “Freightliner” incarnation with vocalist Ted Tweedie was still well down the road. Tom, Pete, Dave, Rollie and Stew had the longest run, packing ‘em in with a set list that veered from Frank Zappa to Merle Haggard and back to Little Feat, and have remained committed to the vocation that first brought them together over thirty years ago. Big wheels rollin’. Movin’ on. click here for photos and more details |
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Released January 2012 A
classic tale of unrequited love. The lyric evokes the hills of
Appalachia; the music is steeped in folk and country with tasteful
slide guitar adding a touch of southern blues.
words and music by Stewart MacDougall © 2011 Trouble Clef Music Ltd. Recorded at Homestead Recorders Edmonton AB by Barry Allen additional recording by Colin Lay Mixed by Colin Lay Now Available for download at
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