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Apple and the Tree 4:200:00/4:20
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Broken Bones 4:530:00/4:53
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Given Up on Peace 5:370:00/5:37
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Aberdeen 3:300:00/3:30
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Sid the Navigator 5:200:00/5:20
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The Painter 4:220:00/4:22
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Cracked 3:280:00/3:28
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Terrible Sheep 3:550:00/3:55
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100 Years 4:370:00/4:37
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Road to Rome 4:270:00/4:27
Lee Penn Sky
Folk and Americana songrwiting at it's best
Lee Penn Sky writes and plays confessional and opinionated Folk. His songwriting is unadorned, the nature of his writing makes the songs all the more powerful - his metaphorical, vulnerable and often ironic lyrics have a way of getting to the heart of a matter and his presentation is often compared to Colin Hay's solo work, Pete Seeger meets Cat Stevens, or Ray LaMontagne meets Josh Ritter depending on the generation you ask. He has a rootsy, direct, powerful and at times, melancholic style of conveying his lyrics which lends to a very dynamic and intimate feel.
Lee Penn Sky has shared the stage with some amazing artists such as John Craigie, Glen Phillips from Toad the Wet Sprocket, Rhett Miller of Old 97’s, Steve Forbert, Gill Landry of Old Crow Medicine Show, Tony Furtado, Paul Cauthern, Rose's Pawn Shop Sean Rowe, Will Varley, and Allie Kral from Yonder Mountain String Band. He has been billed with acts such as Billy Strings, the Cowboy Junkies, Son Volt, the Old 97's, the Seldom Scene and many more.
His fourth studio album Prophets and Pretenders released on July 25, 2025, to an impressive and growing response. Thus far it's been streamed 100,000 times on Spotify and other platforms. 335,000+ people have watched the videos from Prophets and Pretenders on YouTube.
Colin Hay recently came to one of Lee Penn Sky's shows and said, "He is a remarkable lyricist!"
Lee's fifth studio album Bits of Stardust is due to be released early in 2027.
Lee Penn Sky released his 3rd album Lean into the Letter on 1/17/20, which chronicles an amazing journey that started with the discovery of a letter sent from Israel in 1958.This letter, found in the back of a drawer in a purse that belonged to Lee's Great-Grandmother Sadie, was translated at a local synagogue, revealing the author as Sadie's nephew, Jakob Nistel, thought to have perished with the rest of Sadie's family in the Holocaust. Jakob detailed the perils of evading the Nazis until the end of the war, hiding underground, to ultimately immigrate to Israel to start a new life. Through the magic of the internet, Lee's family located Jakob’s descendants in Israel, resulting in Le embarking on a pilgrimage to Israel to connect with their history, his family, and their future. The songs that compose Lean into the Letter thread together Lee's thoughts and emotions regarding Jakob, his survival in the face of horrific loss, his ongoing and unshakable faith, the discovery of and joy for new family, and ideas of resistance, depression, loss and anger in the context of historic and volatile conflicts that permeate the Holy Land. No Depression magazine named Lee Penn Sky's Lean into the Letter as one of their favorite albums of the year!
29 Left Down, a 13-song album, was released in March of 2015 with much anticipation and immediate critical acclaim.
Several of Lee’s songs from his debut album Prelude to Hindsight released in 2006, have been played on folk and alt-country radio shows throughout the United States and in Europe.
His song "The Trees” was included on In Our Town: Songs for BOISE 150 in 2013.
Lee serves as a board member of the Idaho Songwriters Association.
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“THROUGH THE LENS: ND Photographers Share Their Favorite Albums of 2019-- Lee Penn Sky – Lean Into The Letter Lee Penn Sky (aka Lee Penchansky ) is a singer-songwriter from Boise, Idaho. I met Lee as he was the stage manager at one of the venues at the Treefort Music Fest. Over the course of the festival, his stage featured Anna Tivel, June West, and a variety of other outstanding musicians. Lee shared with me that he was recording an album inspired by stories from a relative in Israel who had survived the Holocaust and some correspondence with a family that he never knew. While Sky is not a well-known musician nationally, this record touches the heart and is a testament to all those musicians that play in small bars and roadhouses across the land and who have a story to share. It’s as moving as his performance at Treefort. — Peter Dervin”