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Collectively as individuals & as a duo Ian & Sylvia Tyson have sold over 400K albums in the US alone during the Soundscan era.

Regarded as pioneers of the folk & Americana genre, Ian & Sylvia first came to prominence in the early 60's folk scene in Greenwich Village and Yorkville performing alongside Bob Dylan (they were also managed by Albert Grossman), Joni Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot (who they made famous by being the first to record Early Morning Rain) and were a headliner on the now famous 1063 Newport Folk Festival. Ian's composition ''Four Strong Winds'' is now considered a standard and a CBC poll in 2005 named it the ''most essential'' piece of Canadian music. Ian & Sylvia were one of the first artists to explore an electric Country Rock sound recording with both New York and Nashville musicians.

In early 2019 Sylvia discovered a box of old 1/4'' analog tapes in her attic that were professionally recorded in the early 1970s in front of a live studio audience. Over 20 previously unreleased recordings, included many of Ian & Sylvia's classics, but also enough to have a full CD of recordings of songs never before included on any Ian & Sylvia album. The Lost Tapes was released as a special 2 CD set on September 6th, the week prior to Sylvia's induction into the Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame. Both Ian & Sylvia have now been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

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If you need a reason to hate PC Nazis, how about their efforts at being indignant that folkies Ian & Sylvia had the temerity not to get political in the late 60s causing their career to hit the wall. They responded by inventing country rock and giving us Amos Garrett. Too bad it all unraveled professionally and personally by 1975 although perseverance led to vindication decades later as they are now celebrated as the most important figures in Canadian music. While house cleaning, Sylvia came across these boxes of live tapes from the Great Speckled Bird years which make a great cap off to their induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. While the audio might not be all it can be in places, the heart and soul are there front and center and it's like the years have never gone by. Killer stuff from greats that never failed us no matter where their roads led them. Don't call yourself a folkie if you don't grab a copy of this double album of things you never heard either in these versions or at all.

     —Chris Spector, Midwest Record review 08/13/19

...If your collection of Ian and Sylvia is worn, or if you just want to revisit this classic era of country and folk music, this is a great collection of songs, sung as well as anyone, or duo for that matter, has ever sung them.

     —Jim Hynes, Glide Magazine