Title: Broadside Ballads, Vol. 8: Song for Patty Artist: Sammy Walker Label: Folkways Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093070531024 Genre: Country, Folk Release Date: 2012-05-30 Number of Discs: 1
Song for Patty is folk singer Sammy Walker's first album. Recorded when he was just twenty two, the album concentrates on characters at odds with the world around them, from (famous heiress and outlaw) Patty Hearst to Johnny Strozier (who was given a 40 year prison sentence after the unarmed robbery of a Georgia store). Featuring contemporaries Sis Cunningham and Phil Ochs (who also produced the album), Song for Patty features ten original tracks, Ochs' Bound for Glory and Woody Guthrie's I Ain't Got No Home. Liner notes include lyrics, sheet music, photos and illustrations of Walker and his subjects, and a brief biography.
Tracks: 1.1 Song for Patty 1.2 Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy 1.3 My Old Yearbook 1.4 Little New Jersey Town 1.5 I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore 1.6 Closin' Time 1.7 A Simple Hour Operation 1.8 The Ballad of Johnny Strozier 1.9 Funny Farm Blues 1.10 Testimony of a Dying Lady 1.11 Catcher in the Rye 1.12 Bound for Glory
