Canada 150: Ian Tyson, the cowboy folksinger

In the early 1960s, folksinger Ian Tyson was sitting in a bar called the Kettle of Fish in Greenwich Village in New York. A “kind of grubby kid” walked in and announced he had a new song.
“It was Bobby Dylan, and he sang me, Blowin’ in the Wind,” Tyson recalled on the TV show, The Texas Connection. “He just wrote it. I thought, ‘I can do that.’”
Tyson went home and wrote his first song, Four Strong Winds. Not bad for a first try — in 20