Great Speckled Bird (band)

Great Speckled Bird was a Canadian country rock band.

History

The band "Great Speckled Bird" was founded as a companion volume of the duo Ian and Sylvia 's by then- married couple Ian and Sylvia Tyson in 1968 to record an album in Nashville.

The duo wanted to put together a band that could support their own style, and did not want to rely on the studio musician. Presented together, there were musicians such as Bill Keith, who previously played for Bill Monroe, and Buddy Cage, who was later to play for The New Riders of the Purple Sage. Also N.D. Smart, co-founder of Mountain, has agreed to cooperate.

The Great Speckled Bird album published in 1970 is considered one of the most sonorous in the career of Ian and Sylvia Tyson. In the period that followed the band through Canada and the United States toured.

Reached its climax in the band in 1970 when they took part in the Festival Express, a concert tour across Canada. The group stayed together for a while, but as Cage and Garrett left the band, it seemed more and more as if Great Speckled Bird was just an appendix of the duo Ian and Sylvia 's and not an independent band.

The next album was already released by Columbia Records label as a work of Ian and Sylvia with the help of Great Speckled Bird. The band was officially disbanded in 1972, but some of the musicians backed Ian Tyson continued in his musical The Ian Tyson Show ( also known as Nashville North ) on TV.

Discography

• Great Speckled Bird in 1970
• You Were on My Mind in 1972 as " Ian & Sylvia with the Great Speckled Bird"