Tom Sankey

Tom Sankey is an American folk singer, playwright and actor known for the 1967 off Broadway production The Golden Screw. In 1962 Sankey contributed to the folksongs in Jonas Mekas's film of Allen Ginsberg, Guns of Trees. The Golden Screw was a folk rock musical documenting the progress of a Bob Dylanesque folk singer. The complete score for the show was recorded by Sankey on Atco Records. The show's band were called The Inner Sanctum and featured Kevin Michael, Lead Guitar, and Gerry Michael. The next year, 1968, Sankey played tenor guitar with Gerry Michael and The Bummers at Woodstock.