A Harvest of Gentle Clang is a 1966 LP by Patrick Sky

Patrick Sky

Patrick Sky is a musician, singer and songwriter of Irish and Native American ancestry...

, dedicated by him to Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...

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History

With tracks such as "Jay Gould's Daughter," "John Riley

John Riley (song)

"John Riley" is a traditional English folk song ....

" and "Farmer's Cursed Wife" (a re-working of "Old Lady and the Devil" by Bill & Belle Reed, whose version is included in Harry Smith

Harry Everett Smith

Harry Everett Smith was an American archivist, ethnomusicologist, student of anthropology, record collector, experimental filmmaker, artist, bohemian and mystic...

's Anthology of American Folk Music

Anthology of American Folk Music

The Anthology of American Folk Music is a six-album compilation released in 1952 by Folkways Records , comprising eighty-four American folk, blues and country music recordings that were originally issued from 1927 to 1932.Experimental filmmaker and notable eccentric Harry Smith compiled the music...

), the album is part traditional folk album and part vehicle for Sky's wry sense of humour (the latter quality is represented by tracks such as "Good Old Man," a spoken word advertisement for Ajax and a punning cameo by Mississippi John Hurt

Mississippi John Hurt

John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt was an American country blues singer and guitarist.Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine...

). The Ajax reference was perhaps an allusion to the similarity between Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

' knight-on-horse logo and Ajax's use of a similar image in its 1960s advertising. The album's clever title and Hurt's brief appearance receive special mention in Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk was an American folk singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and was eventually nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street" ....

's posthumously published autobiography, in which Van Ronk writes warmly about his friend Sky. On the album Sky alludes to Van Ronk before "St. Louis Tickle," which Sky says he "learned from a walking piano roll with a beard." A portion of the original liner notes is also attributed to "Terri Van Ronk and Dave."

Never having been released on CD, the album was once available as a Vanguard

Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

 Digital Vault album available for download through iTunes

ITunes Store

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 (with seven bonus tracks) but is currently unavailable.

Side One

1. "Jay Gould's Daughter"
2. "A Girl I Once Did Own"
3. "Are You From Dixie"*
4. "Cape Cod Girls"
5. "Good Old Man"
6. "Keep On Walking"*

Side Two

1. "Mahogany Row"
2. "St. Louis Tickle"
3. "Farmer's Cursed Wife
   The Farmer's Curst Wife
   The Farmer's Curst Wife is Child ballad number 278. It has been recorded by Pete Seeger and Jean Ritchie-Synopsis:A farmer had a bad woman for his wife, and one day the devil came for her. They reached Hell, and the gates were shut, so she struck him. She made life in hell so bad that the devil...
   
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4. "John Riley
   John Riley (song)
   "John Riley" is a traditional English folk song ....
   
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5. "Give to the Cause"*
6. "Need Somebody On Your Bond
   You'll Need Somebody on Your Bond
   Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan recorded "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" in early 1965 for inclusion on his debut album What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid...
   
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Bonus Tracks on iTunes download

1. "Mahogany Row" (Alternative take)
2. "She Moved through the Fair"
3. "One Grain of Sand"
4. "One Sunday Eve"
5. "Candyman"
6. "Words without Music" (Alternative take from Sky's self-titled debut
   Patrick Sky (album)
   Patrick Sky is the self-titled debut album of Patrick Sky, released in 1965 on the Vanguard label.-Side One:# "Many a Mile"# "Hangin' Round"# "Love Will Endure"# "Reuben" # "Rattlesnake Mountain" # "Everytime"...
   
   )
7. "Nectar of God" (Alternative take from Sky's self-titled debut
   Patrick Sky (album)
   Patrick Sky is the self-titled debut album of Patrick Sky, released in 1965 on the Vanguard label.-Side One:# "Many a Mile"# "Hangin' Round"# "Love Will Endure"# "Reuben" # "Rattlesnake Mountain" # "Everytime"...
   
   )

Personnel

• Patrick Sky – vocals, guitar, harmonica
• * Barry Kornfeld – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  ; Sean O'Brien – bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  ; Elmer Gordon – piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  ; Bob Yellin – banjo
  Banjo
  In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
  
   (Side One, Nos. 3, 6)
• Lucy Brown – jaw harp (Side One, No. 3 and Side Two, No. 5)
• Pat Sky – 12-string guitar (Side One, No. 6), banjo (Side Two, No. 5)
• Norman Grossman – drums; Lowell Levinger
  The Youngbloods
  The Youngbloods was an American folk rock band consisting of Jesse Colin Young , Jerry Corbitt , Lowell Levinger, nicknamed "Banana," , and Joe Bauer . Despite receiving critical acclaim, they never achieved widespread popularity. Their only U.S. Top 40 entry was "Get Together".-Background and...
  
   – banjo; Maynard Solomon
  Maynard Solomon
  Maynard Solomon has carried out a multiple career: he was a co-founder of Vanguard Records as well as a music producer, and later became a writer on music.-Career in the recording industry:...
  
   – triangle
  Triangle (instrument)
  The triangle is an idiophone type of musical instrument in the percussion family. It is a bar of metal, usually steel but sometimes other metals like beryllium copper, bent into a triangle shape. The instrument is usually held by a loop of some form of thread or wire at the top curve...
  
  (Side One, No. 6)
• Musical Direction – Elmer Jared Gordon
• Design – Jules Halfant
• Photo – Bob Carrington