title: Through a Window
text: # Through a Window
  
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  Through a Window is the seventh album by Patrick Sky, recorded in 1985.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  ### Side A
  
  * 1." San Francisco Bay Blues"
     * I'll never forget Jesse Fuller playing his Foot-Della [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'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.
  
  ### Side B
  
  * 1. Reverend Gary Davis "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 Siebel still remains one of my favorite songwriters.
  * 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
  
  ### Technical
  
  * Produced, supervised, recorded and engineered by Patrick Sky — Skylark Productions.
  * Assistant Engineer: Ray Noren
  * Graphics: Cathy Sky
  * Photos: Ray Clayton
  