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Probably THE Ian & Sylvia to get if you get just one

John Anderson | Bar Harbor, ME USA | 09/07/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is probably the most coherent & polished of the I&S records, from a great cover of Circle Game to the wonderfully mournful Wild Geese I&S take you back to places you thought you had lost a long time ago. I have used Summer Wages for everything from teaching statistics to driving a boat up Fundy & it is still a great tune. If you like straight-from-the-heart folk with lyrics that you won't be embarrassed by later, get this album."

Their Last Great Album

Walter E. Hall | Phoenix, AZ | 01/24/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Ian and Sylvia had a nice career singing folk music and some of their own songs. So Much For Dreaming includes two of Ian Tyson's greatest songs, Wild Geese and Summer Wages. The former is a pastoral lament, simple and elemental. The latter is an extraordinarily personal elegy to the past which evokes both the pain and joy of remembered youth. The rest of the set doesn't rise to this level of greatness, but is enjoyable nonetheless."