Ian & Sylvia

song which you've chosen which we'll play in a moment but Four Strong Winds you've chosen which is a song from the mid well very early 60s why did you choose this particular song

well I guess I have to confess that people will wonder that my accent is not strong it's Canadian and I was born in Canada this song is by Ian and Sylvia who are Canadian folk singers very very popular at the time I was in Canada And the Four Strong Winds, I just love the movement, the concept of winds moving people on.

Okay, thank you.

Well, let's listen to Four Strong Winds.

I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.

If I get there before the snow flies And if things are going good You could meet me if I sent you down the fair But by then it would be winter There ain't too much for you to do And those winds sure can blow cold way out there Four strong winds that blow lonely Seven seas that run high All those things that don't change Come what may But our good times I'm ever back this way

What a classic early 60s folk song, Ian and Sylvie.

That was Four Strong Winds by Ian and Sylvia.

Sylvia Tyson was born in 1940.

Canadian singer-songwriter whose foundational folk music fame hit with the duo in the 1960s called Ian and Sylvia.

And she wrote the standard You Were On My Mind.

Sally Barker was born in 1959, English folk rock singer-songwriter who achieved acclaim with the Poozies before she got television fame as a finalist in the 2014 season of the BBC's The Voice UK.

Um, it was my dad played folk guitar, like both of my parents were really into the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 60s.

And my dad was growing up, you know, who played Bob Dylan songs and Simon and Garfunkel and Ian and Sylvia and things like that.

Yeah, this little Yamaha nylon string guitar that everybody has, you know, like a class.

Yeah, of course.

So then I started to get back into music, but Anyway, so we, yes, then John, I met John and, you know, he was like, oh, why don't you, let's hear you sing something.

And I started with, I sang Un Canadien Errant, which is an Ian Sylvia version of that song.

And I could play it on guitar.

I could play a few things on guitar.

Graham Shaw.

Sylvia Tyson from Ian and Sylvia.

Yeah.

And then we have, uh-