Well known as the male half of Ian & Sylvia, as an outstanding songwriter ("Four Strong Winds," "Someday Soon," and "Navajo Rug"), and as a premier voice of the working cowboy, Ian's latest album in that genre (at age 71) continues the cowboy storytelling that has maintained his popularity.

1. This is my Sky
   
2. Land of Shining Mountains
   
3. The Ambler Saddle
   
4. Love Without End
   
5. Silver Bell
   
6. Road to Las Gruces
   
7. Range Delivery
   
8. So No More
   
9. One Morning in May
   
10. Always saying Goodbye
    
    
    Bonus Tracks
    
11. Moisture
    
12. Casey's Gone
    
    

    Songs from the Gravel Road was recorded in Toronto with celebrated producer Danny Greenspoon and a backup band of some of the best players in Toronto. And if the likes of guitarist Kevin Breit, horn players Phil Dwyer, Steve McDade and Guido Basso, and drummer Mark Kelso are better known in the jazz community than the world of country music, thats cool with Tyson.

    
    
    

    "I took a gamble", he says. "Theyre young guys, theyre great jazz and pop musicians, and they have no connection with my kind of life. I wanted them to bring a different sensibility to the songs. And they are songs that I couldnt hear with the standard country instrumentation, which is often so mind-numbingly predictable."

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