I just found out that folk legend Patrick Sky passed away May 26 at age 80, of prostate & bone cancer.
His 1973 album Songs That Made America Famous (consisting of brilliant, radical, and largely obscene songs that pretty much ended his career) was in regular play at the college I attended at the time. I regularly perform "Fight For Liberation" from said album; I would link it here, but there is a reason it helped end his career...........
When I decided to learn it, I found the lyrics, but could find the chords - so I Googled him & e-mailed him. He responded quite graciously.
After that album ended his folk-singer days (he was a contemporary & peer of Dave van Ronck, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan) he lived in the mountains of N. Carolina making & playing Uilleann pipes.
Peter
