Ten Favorite Wind Songs: Four Strong Winds (#3)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (67752)
United States
January 24, 2018 10:25am CST
Humpy hapday! It's the middle of the week, but it's near the end of the countdown of my favorite songs that have the word "wind" in the title. Here's the next song on the list.
#3: Four Strong Winds - Ian & Sylvia
(No surprise to @JohnRoberts , given that I recently sent him a link of Linda Ronstadt appearing on an Ian & Sylvia reunion show...
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According to Picky Wedia, a Canadian fan poll said this is the song in Canada. It's the closing song at the Edmonton Folk Festival. It was played at the former Alberta premier's funeral.
Gee, why is an old folk song that popular?
Think I'll go out to Alberta
Weather's good there in the fall
Ian Tyson is a national treasure in Canada. Talk about a songwriter?! Wow. He's very well respected in folk and country circles here in the States as well (Bobby Bare had a hit with this song in 1964; Don Williams' first band, the Pozo-Seco Singers, covered Tyson's "Renegade;" and Jerry Jeff Walker did a marvelous cover of "Navajo Rug").
It seems that "everyone" has covered this, from the aforementioned Bobby Bare hit to Neil Young's rendition on Comes a Time. It's one of the great, great, great "national" songs of Canada.
Thanks for sharing this marvelous songwriter with the rest of the world.
Four Strong Winds
Written by Ian Tyson
Recorded by Ian & Sylvia
From Four Strong Winds, 1964
But by then it would be winter:
)
According to Picky Wedia, a Canadian fan poll said this is the song in Canada. It's the closing song at the Edmonton Folk Festival. It was played at the former Alberta premier's funeral.
Gee, why is an old folk song that popular?
Think I'll go out to Alberta
Weather's good there in the fall
Ian Tyson is a national treasure in Canada. Talk about a songwriter?! Wow. He's very well respected in folk and country circles here in the States as well (Bobby Bare had a hit with this song in 1964; Don Williams' first band, the Pozo-Seco Singers, covered Tyson's "Renegade;" and Jerry Jeff Walker did a marvelous cover of "Navajo Rug").
It seems that "everyone" has covered this, from the aforementioned Bobby Bare hit to Neil Young's rendition on Comes a Time. It's one of the great, great, great "national" songs of Canada.
Thanks for sharing this marvelous songwriter with the rest of the world.
Four Strong Winds
Written by Ian Tyson
Recorded by Ian & Sylvia
From Four Strong Winds, 1964
But by then it would be winter:
"Four Strong Winds" is a song written by Ian Tyson in the early 1960s. Ian and Sylvia's single version entered the charts 9/29/63. Subsequently, it was relea...
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
24 Jan 18
Sylvia wrote You Were On My Mind which was a hit for We Five.
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@FourWalls (67752)
• United States
24 Jan 18
The Ian & Sylvia version didn't have the "I've got troubles, woah-oh." There's a great quote from her about the song on Wikipedia: she wrote it in the bathtub because that's the only place she could escape the cockroaches. 
(Which makes you wonder why their version didn't have the "I've got troubles" part! 
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(Which makes you wonder why their version didn't have the "I've got troubles" part! )
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
25 Jan 18
Love this tune and the singers. He did go country after they split up I heard. Great song!
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
28 Jan 18
I remember them, but not the song.
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@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
24 Jan 18
Thanks for the share. And the link.
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