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Patrick Sky Patrick Sky, a standout of Greenwich Village’s folk music scene of the ‘60s, who, as he matured as a songwriter and artist, blended sharp satire with politics and cut an album deemed "x-rated" for its time, died May 26. He was 80. Born Patrick Lynch to Creek Indian and Irish ancestry, Sky learned to play guitar, banjo, and harmonica during a youth spent largely near the LaFouche Swamp region of Louisiana. Like so many of his peers, Sky served in the military for several years af...

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Rolling Stone Patrick Sky, Folk Singer and Bob Dylan Contemporary, Dead at 80 Member of the Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene, Sky released acclaimed satirical LP Songs That Made America Famous in 1973 By Timothy Duffy Patrick Sky, a member of the Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene that launched Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, and many others, died on May 27th in Asheville, North Carolina. Sky had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, but according to his wife, fol...

A mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s, he started out playing traditional songs but then wrote his own.