Whatever happened to Ian of Ian & Silvia?

"I don't think we were playing very well back then, but it didn't matter... Folk was huge, and the shows were permeated by an incredible energy."

Here's "Four Strong Winds." Judge for yourself.

Here's his new memoir. He looks like Ronald Reagan on the cover, but he's doing that Reagan-ing in Canada, where he was born.

I didn't like going from being a top-of-the-pile folk duo to a discredited schlock act, from prince and princess of the whole thing to nothing. I got pretty angry about it. Around 1970 Sylvia and I went to see the Flying Burrito Brothers at a little joint in Manhattan. They were loud and out of tune, but we could see that they were going somewhere, and I was stewing because I thought we were much better than they were.

Even though they weren't very good! Ian "got drunk" and "yell[ed] at Sylvia." Aw.

They were the model for Mitch and Mickey in "A Mighty Wind"... weren't they?