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- Lorne
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Ian & Sylvia see height of their career in very different lights
Ask Ian & Sylvia how they feel about their new album, and you'll get two starkly different opinions.
While the singers in the long-separated folk couple still get along, they don't always see eye to eye when it comes to their music. That includes their opposing views on "Ian & Sylvia: The Lost Tapes," a newly discovered collection of concert recordings of the duo in their prime in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- Flo
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Re: Ian & Sylvia see height of their career in very different lights
Thanks, Lorne, that was very interesting.
- gopher
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Re: Ian & Sylvia see height of their career in very different lights
until i saw "festival express" a few years ago, i never knew ian and sylvia had ever 'gone electric', much less that the height of their career would have been considered to be late 60's - early 70's.
my only exposure to them in any depth were their performances on a couple of newport folk festival box sets i had as a kid, recorded in the early to approaching mid 60's. based on hearing those, i would have guessed they were at the height of their career then.
incidentally, a few years ago after a new riders of the purple sage show, i had the opportunity to speak with buddy cage (he can be seen playing in their band during the "festival express" film). i asked him if he was canadian. he replied that he was from california. i then asked how he had become associated with ian and sylvia. he said,
"they wanted what i had."
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