Last Saturday night I ventured down Santa Monica way to McCabes Guitar Store.
Ian Tyson (w/ a Fender bassman named Gord on his left, and a Martin fancy picker named Gord on his right,) sang of Navajo Rugs and Charlie Russell, Elko & Mona's (been to both,) Saddles and Saddless Mustangs, The Song That Paid the Mortgage on the Ranch (twice,) and a closing Over the Rainbow that flat knocked me down.
The 72yr old Baritone is stronger than ever, I do believe. He's headed up to Bend, OR next. Janice tells me he came up from San Diego to Santa Monica. Rare these days.
Great new album - Songs From the Gravel Road. Did much stuff from the CD - each right up there w/ his best.
Got to chat a bit after and told him of The Lightfoot Connection here. So, Ian Tyson gives a high wave of the hat to all the Corfidders.
I hadn't seen him in concert since Elko in the 80s at The Cowboy Poet Roundup. All the chawin', handlebar mustacheod, rough riders were vivid.
Ian was vivid. And Mona's . . . well . . .
Adios,
The Rez
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I came to Love the Music
Before I came to Be
[Psalm 139:13]
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