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Through a Window

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Released
  
1985

Artist
  
Patrick Sky

Label
  
Shanachie Records

Through A Window (1985)
  
Down to Us (2009)

Release date
  
1985

Genre
  
Folk music

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Through A Window is the seventh album by Patrick Sky, recorded in 1985.

Contents

Side A

  • 1." San Francisco Bay Blues"
  • I'll never forget Jesse Fuller playing his Foot-Della [sic] (a string-bass operated by the foot) at the Gaslight in New York. He played a 3-hour set and had to be dragged offstage.
  • 2. "Ramblin' Boy"
  • Tom Paxton's best.
  • 3. "Separation Blues"
  • My own contribution. I'm told it's a popular camp song.
  • 4. " Dark as a Dungeon"
  • Although this song was written much earlier it was important to me when I was involved in raising money for the Hazard miners. There is no better mining song.
  • 5. Mississippi John Hurt's "Candy Man"
  • His style of fingerpicking influenced me more than any other player. Candy Man — what a metaphor!
  • 6. "Blowin' in the Wind"
  • When this song first hit the airwaves it shocked everyone. The anthem of the sixties.

    • Side B

  • 1. Reverend Gary Davis "Candy Man"
  • The Reverend's style of fingerpicking along with Merle Travis' set the standard.
  • 2. ""Don't Think Twice"
  • The great Dylan song was heavily influenced by our mutual friend, Paul Clayton — collector and singer; his logging camp songs were gems.
  • 3. "Ballad of Ira Hayes"
  • The plight of the Native Americans was never more poignantly expressed.
  • 4. "Freight Train"
  • Is there anyone who plays a guitar that does not know Libba Cotten's Freight Train?
  • 5. "Louise"
  • Paul Siebel still remains one of my favorite song writers.
  • 6. "Good Night Irene"
  • I'll never forget the first time I heard Ledbelly [sic] on the 12 string guitar. I ran to a pawn shop and bought an old plywood 'Harmony". Later I used it for a planter.

    • Personnel

  • Patrick Sky: vocal, acoustic guitar
  • Michael Shorrock: bass
  • Laura Furlong: fiddle
  • Ted Bird: harmonica
  • Produced, supervised, recorded and engineered by Patrick Sky — Skylark Productions.
  • Assistant Engineer: Ray Noren
  • Graphics: Cathy Sky
  • Photos: Ray Clayton

    • References

    Through a Window Wikipedia
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