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Summary: Couldn't be better!
Comment: This is a wonderful compilation. Every time we play it, guests ask who it is and where to get it.
Ian Tyson is the real thing. He knows the West and the Cowboy Way. The name of the album is appropriate - every song is a good one.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great CD
Comment: This was the 2nd of this CD that I have bought from Amazon. It is so great and I have enjoyed it so much that I bought one for my Sister and she loves it also. I had trouble finding this CD anywhere else so thank you Amazon for having it and many more of Ian Tyson's CD's. I really enjoy this artists music.
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Summary: ALL the good 'uns
Comment: I recently met Ian Tyson at the NCHA Futurity in Fort Worth. He took the time to sign an autograph for me and visit with me. He is just as great in person as he is on this album as well as all his others. All his song stir an emotion in you. Whether they make you laugh or cry. I have been a cowboy all my life and his songs ring true.
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Summary: Read the title again
Comment: Thought I should clue folks into the fact that this is a CD of "all the good 'uns" - a "best of" compilation. Naturally I could quibble, because I think anything Ian does is really good. (And, unfortunately, really different - I wish other artists had his integrity; I wish other plain folks, walking the talk, had his musicality. We need more songs, more voices like his in our lives.)If you're wanting to give someone thoughtful a thoughtful gift, something that might challenge their overly civilized sensibilities but not leave their ears twanging, then this is a great introduction to great lyrics and good, memorable music, celebrating really good lives.
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Summary: No flies on Tyson...
Comment: Ian Tyson is still a great singer and song writer. After forty years his voice has lost some range--I guess he found no foun-
tain of youth--but his control is great and his writing is at least good as ever. Some of the songs on the CD don't appeal to me much, but its obvious Tyson takes the emotions serious-
ly. Nothing ever seems false.
As a singer, he's become quite matter-of-fact when dealing with subjects which are, for many of his story-telling personae, matters of great personal loss or nostalgia. "Old Double Dia-mond", "MC Horses" and "Fifty Years Ago" are songs with legitimately sad subjects, but Tyson's characters never cry in their beer--at least not while he's singing.
Musically the CD seems like it's from another era--one when sidemen didn't have to show off every chance they got. Don't get me wrong, because there are some real examples of instru- mental prowess--the solo guitar break in "Old Double Diamomd" is absolutely perfect the same way the solo guitar break in the studio version of "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Stones is perfect. Properly, the music supports the songs.
It's funny, but a lot of current country artistes would cer-
tainly benefit from the kind of control Ian Tyson obviously brings to the studio. I'm betting he learned how to do it the old-fashioned way. He probably earned it.
