Patrick Sky

Patrick Sky | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 1, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B000000EIC
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,168 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an enduring classic, September 21, 2001

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Jerome Clark (Canby, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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Though little remembered today, long retired from the music business, Patrick Sky recorded two classic Vanguard albums which are among the most artistically vital recordings of the 1960s folk revival. In this, the first of them (the second, A Harvest of Gentle Clang, has yet to be reissued), he proved himself a masterly interpreter of traditional material and a talented composer of original songs. In the former category is his brittle reading of "Reuben," a post-Civil War song of murky origins and many variants, its lyrics conjuring up cryptic images of loss, distance, and violence, leaving it to the uneasy listener to fill in the blanks. Sky's own composition "Nectar of God" is an overlooked masterpiece, as good as any Dylan song of the period, as emotionally compelling as the best of Townes Van Zandt and John Prine. With his dry, laconic vocal style, accompanied on all but two cuts by solo acoustic guitar (with occasional harmonica), he proves that great music does not depend on walls of sound and state-of-the-art studio technology. To me this record sounds as powerful now as it did when, thousands of albums heard since, I first put it on my record player more than three decades ago and was touched by its understated beauty.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful!, November 18, 1998

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John A. Wilson (Riverside, California) - See all my reviews
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I met and sang with Pat before he made his first trip to New York. "I'm a legend there," he said, "everybody's heard ABOUT me, but nobody's heard me." Then as now, it's too bad. Pat taught Buffy Sainte Marie to fingerpick and was equally at home with Mississippi John Hurt. Buy it!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Precurser to Dylan, Prine, et al, a true original!, September 1, 1998

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This was Sky's first album, (1963?) combining traditional folk with Patrick's first originals. Why he never excelled beyond this and perhaps four other albums, ending with Song's that Made America Famous is beyond me. He now resides in North Carolina working on Irish Pipe music. He seemed to have self destructed with "Songs...." This first album is a must for all folk lovers.