ICONIC CANADIAN SINGER IAN TYSON RELEASES NEW STONY
PLAIN RECORDS ALBUM, CARNERO VAQUERO, ON JUNE 16
Upcoming Tour Includes Performances in Washington, DC
and New York City
EDMONTON, AB - Acclaimed roots music label Stony Plain
Records announces a June 16 U.S. release date for Carnero Vaquero,
the 13th album from iconic Canadian singer/songwriter Ian Tyson.
The late blues singer John Lee Hooker, asked at age 85
whether he planned to retire, told a reporter: “It’s too late to quit now.” That
may well be the motto of Ian Tyson, whose ongoing career began in the folk music
boom of the early ‘60s.
Now 81, Tyson has just recorded a new album for
Edmonton-based Stony Plain Records — and he still plays some 40 concerts a year
as well as manages the Tyson Cattle Ranch south of Calgary. U.S. dates on his
upcoming tour in support of the new album’s release include May 16 at The
Birchmere in Alexandria, VA; and July 16 at The City Winery in New York City.
Carnero Vaquero includes 10 songs that can be
described as true and clear as the western sky, the foothills of the Rockies and
the changing cowboy tradition. The album’s title — “Carnero” is the Spanish word
for ram, and “Vaquero” is Spanish for cowboy, and, indeed, the cowboy tradition,
particularly in the south-western United States — is an accurate indication of
the music.
The songs range from the traditional (“Doney Girl”) to
co-writes with Calgary’s Kris Demeanor. There are five new Ian Tyson songs, as
well as a tuneful remake of “Darcy Farrow” (originally recorded in the early
‘60s Ian & Sylvia folk duo days). “Wolves No Longer Sing” is written with
Tom Russell — the pair co-wrote “Navajo Rug,” one of Tyson’s biggest
hits.
Tyson’s voice, which has recovered from the accident that
severely damaged it in 2007, recorded the album with his core touring band.
Instead of a formal studio, Tyson cut most of the CD in a 100-year-old stone
building, a mile down a gravel road from his ranch house; it’s the building
where Tyson works every day when he’s not on the road. “I think that the ghosts
of all the songs I’ve written here approve of the new ones,” he
says.
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