A Harvest of Gentle Clang


A Harvest of Gentle Clang is the second album by Patrick Sky, dedicated to Buffy Sainte-Marie.

History

With tracks such as "Jay Gould's Daughter," "John Riley" and "Farmer's Cursed Wife", the album is part traditional folk album and part vehicle for Sky's wry sense of humour. The Ajax reference was perhaps an allusion to the similarity between Vanguard Records' 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'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 Digital Vault album available for download through iTunes but is currently unavailable.

Track listing

Side One

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

Side Two

  1. "Mahogany Row"
  2. "St. Louis Tickle"
  3. "Farmer's Cursed Wife"
  4. "John Riley"
  5. "Give to the Cause"*
  6. "Need Somebody On Your Bond"

Bonus Tracks on iTunes download

  1. "Mahogany Row"
  2. "She Moved through the Fair"
  3. "One Grain of Sand"
  4. "One Sunday Eve"
  5. "Candyman"
  6. "Words without Music"
  7. "Nectar of God"

Personnel

;Technical
  • Jules Halfant - design
  • Bob Carrington - front cover photography