Through A Window

Through A Window is a 1985 album recorded by Patrick Sky.

Information

IDE A

*1. San Francisco Bay Blues
**I'll never forget Jesse Fuller playing his Foot-Delia (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.

IDEB

*1. Reverend Gary Davis9 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 Seibel still remains one of my favorite song writers.
*6. Good Night Irene
**I'll never forget the first time I heard Ledbelly on the 12 string guitar. I ran to a pawn shop and bought an old plywood 'Harmony". Later I used it for a planter.

Details

*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