Northern Journey

Ian & Sylvia | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 26, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B000000EHV
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,971 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Folk Singers from The 60's, July 30, 2006

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John Boland "John Boland" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Northern Journey (Audio CD)

I'm writing this mostly for younger people and other people who may not know about Ian and Sylvia. If you've found this page consider it a very fortunate event in that you are on the thresh-hold of a very musically satisfying experience for yourself! Ian and Sylvia are both 5 Star performers separately----and together, I suppose I'd have to give 'em 10 stars!

One day I was in my dorm room at college in the 60's. I was "showing off" one of my operatic recordings to a young lady. On one of my recordings a tenor hit a high "C" and I said to her with some arrogance, "See, your folk singers can't do that!" The young lady smiled and said, "Well, maybe not but here's my favorite group and I like them just as much or even better than your opera arias." With that, we changed the record from opera to Ian and Sylvia. After one song I was "hooked" as we clapped our hands to the rhythm and melody of these two soaring voices, one coming from the left channel speaker and the other the right channel speaker, singing their hearts out with sincerity, dignity, and beauty.

Luckily there are still many Ian and Sylvia Albums out there on CD so you can buy any one of the albums and take a listen. I think you will be "hooked" on them as I was when I first heard them. Give Ian and Sylvia a listen---you won't be sorry! Email:boland7214@aol.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One last time, August 30, 2000

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"auldsod" (Burlingame, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Northern Journey (Audio CD)

I'm sure we've all had the experience of having certain songs, melodies or bits of lyric suddenly pop into our heads from out of nowhere. Some things stay with us for a long time and occasionally an emotion will trigger their recollection. I bought this album (oops, sorry - CD) for one song. Texas Rangers. I have heard this done by many folks over the years including a very authentic version by the New Lost City Ramblers (remember them?) but Ian and Sylvia's cover of it still makes my hair stand on end after nearly 35 years. Their a capella harmony renders what is an inherently tragic ballad to begin with into grief carved in stone. The loss of close companions and the horror of combat are posthumously realized in a single galvanizing musical document. Don't lose it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars just for John Herald, September 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Northern Journey (Audio CD)

This is, in my opinion, Ian & Sylvia's best album, recorded at the apogee of their musical career (I'd rate "Early Morning Rain" as their second best). It's worth buying just to hear the virtuouso guitar backup by John Herald (formerly with the Greenbriar Boys) on "Four Rode By" and "Moonshine Can." His runs on "Four Rode By," flat picked, are absolutely, positively spellbinding. I put in on with the headphones, and listen to it again and again. Buy it!