Side A

• 1." San Francisco Bay Blues
  San Francisco Bay Blues
  "San Francisco Bay Blues" is an American folk song and is generally considered to be the most famous composition by Jesse Fuller. Fuller first recorded the song in 1954 for a small label called World Song. The song was brought into wider popularity in the early 1960s by club performances by...
  
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  • I'll never forget Jesse Fuller
    Jesse Fuller
    Jesse Fuller was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".-Early life:...
    
     playing his Foot-Della
    Fotdella
    The fotdella was an instrument invented and constructed by Jesse "The Lone Cat" Fuller, an American one-man-band musician, who needed an accompaniment instrument beyond the usual high-hat or bass drum favored by street musicians. Dreaming it up in the early 1950s, while lying in bed, he set about...
    
     [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
    Tom Paxton
    Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years...
    
    's best.
• 3. "Separation Blues"
  • My own contribution. I'm told it's a popular camp song.
• 4. " Dark as a Dungeon
  Dark as a Dungeon
  "Dark as a Dungeon" is a song written by singer-songwriter Merle Travis. It is a lament about the danger and drudgery of being a coal miner in an Appalachian shaft mine. It has become a rallying song among miners seeking improved working conditions....
  
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  • 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
  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...
  
  's "Candy Man"
  • His style of fingerpicking influenced me more than any other player. Candy Man — what a metaphor!
• 6. "Blowin' in the Wind
  Blowin' in the Wind
  "Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan and released on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963. Although it has been described as a protest song, it poses a series of questions about peace, war and freedom...
  
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  • When this song first hit the airwaves it shocked everyone. The anthem of the sixties.

Side B

• 1. Reverend Gary Davis
  Reverend Gary Davis
  Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, was an American blues and gospel singer and guitarist, who was also proficient on the banjo and harmonica...
  
   "Candy Man"
  • The Reverend's style of fingerpicking along with Merle Travis
    Merle Travis
    Merle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the life and exploitation of coal miners. Among his many well-known songs are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues" and "Dark as a Dungeon"...
    
    ' set the standard.
• 2. ""Don't Think Twice"
  • The great Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
    
     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 Ballad of Ira Hayes
  "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" was written by folk singer Peter La Farge. It tells the story of Ira Hayes, one of the five Marines and one Navy Corpsman who became famous for having raised the flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II....
  
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  • 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
    Elizabeth Cotten
    Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten was an American blues and folk musician, singer, and songwriter.A self-taught left-handed guitarist, Cotten developed her own original style. Her approach involved using a right-handed guitar , not re-strung for left-handed playing, essentially, holding a right-handed...
    
    's Freight Train?
• 5. "Louise"
  • Paul Siebel
    Paul Siebel
    Paul Siebel is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born on September 19, 1937 in Buffalo, NY. He is best known for other artist's cover versions of his songs, most notably "Louise"...
    
     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