Under the moniker Ian & Sylvia, Ian and Sylvia Tyson were a Canadian folk duo that came to occupy a central role in the folk music revival that rattled and twanged out of Bleeker Street, beyond Greenwich Village, and into the popular music charts in the early 1960′s. The pair moved to Greenwich Village where they signed with Albert Grossman, mega-manager for Bob Dylan Peter, Paul and Mary. Grossman got them a deal on Vanguard, the duo played the Newport Folk Festival in 1963 and 1965, and they introduced the music of Gordon Lightfoot to the world when they cut “Early Morning Rain” and “(That’s What You Get) For Lovin’ Me.”
The pair were in the center of that blue denim dust devil when Ian says he may have turned Bob Dylan on to marijuana. Of course, Dylan paid it forward to The Beatles. The ramifications stagger their contemplating. Here’s Ian’s remembering…
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