Patrick Sky

Patrick Sky (born Patrick Lynch: October 2, 1943 in Liveoak Gardens, Georgia) is a musician, folk singer, and songwriter of Irish and Native American ancestry (Creek Indian). Sky was raised near the Lafourche Swamps of Louisiana). A close contemporary of Dave Van Ronk and others in the Greenwich Village folk boom of the 1960s, following military service Sky released a number of well received albums from 1965 onwards and played with many of the leading performers of the period, particularly Buffy Sainte-Marie, Eric Andersen and the blues singer Mississippi John Hurt (whose Vanguard albums Sky produced). Sky's song "Many A Mile" became a folk club staple, and has been recorded by Sainte-Marie and others.

Becoming increasingly disillusioned with the music business and politically radical, Sky released the controversial and scabrously satirical ''Songs That Made America Famous' in 1973 (the album was recorded in 1971 but rejected by several record companies before it found a home); to this day he claims to have received no royalties for the album…..Sky gradually moved into the field of Irish traditional music, founding Green Linnet Records in 1973. Today he is recognised as an expert in building and playing the Irish uilleann pipes, often performing with his wife, Cathy. He has also published several books on the subject.''



Links to Peel
Patrick Sky may have been "one of the most enigmatic performers of 1960s folk music" (Allmusic), but when he visited the UK in 1969 he was interviewed by Peel on the Night Ride of 19 March 1969. He made enough of an impression on Peel to be booked twice as a session guest for Night Ride and the subsequent "nameless show", on 02 April 1969 and 30 July 1969 respectively. (During his time in Britain, Patrick Sky also did an episode of the Wednesday evening 'My Kind of Folk series which preceded Peel's nameless show, and a session for a Thursday evening Night Ride hosted by Jon Curle. The DJ also played tracks from Sky's albums, although only one can be found in currently available listings, and his material was covered by artists Peel liked, including Buffy Sainte-Marie, who named one of her albums after his song "Many A Mile".

Patrick Sky doesn't seem to have revisited the UK as a performer, but the label he founded, Green Linnet Records, specialised in Irish and British folk music and Peel played tracks from its catalogue on his shows in later decades.

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