Ian & Sylvia hit their stride on their second LP, which features the first in a line of talented second guitarists (John Herald) they would use to augment their original guitar-autoharp-basslineup. The album featured an assortment of largely traditional material that was unsurpassed in its time, encompassing bluegrass, spirituals, gospel, hillbilly, the French-Canadian standard "V'La L'bon Vent," a British prison song, and two tunes from the Cecil Sharp collection of Southern mountain folk songs of British origin. Two of the most impressive cuts, however, were contemporary compositions. One was their version of
Bob Dylan's "Tomorrow Is a Long Time," one of the first obscure
Dylan tunes to be committed to vinyl. The title cut, an
Ian Tyson original, would prove to be the duo's first song to influence rock musicians, as
the Searchers covered it shortly afterwards with a reverent version that was quite close to the original;
Neil Young revived it in the late '70s. ~ Richie Unterberger