Bruce Duncan "Utah" Phillips (May 15, 1935 – May 23, 2008) was an American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and the "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action, self-identifying as an anarchist.
He often promoted the "Industrial Workers of the World" in his music, actions, and words.
This 1973 Philo album includes a mix of Phillips originals with traditional tunes like "Cannonball Blues," the notorious "Moose Turd Pie" (from whence comes the album's title), and "Wabash Cannonball."
Utah Phillips - Good Though! (1973)
(224 kbps, cover art included)
Tracklist:
| 1 | Cannonball Blues | 6:46 |
| 2 | Queen Of The Rails | 2:57 |
| 3 | Going Away | 3:59 |
| 4 | Frisco Road | 4:21 |
| 5 | Starlight On The Rails | 3:50 |
| 6 | Calling Trains | 0:49 |
| 7 | Daddy, What's A Train? | 3:11 |
| 8 | Moose Turd Pie | 5:23 |
| 9 | Old Buddy Goodnight | 2:36 |
| 10 | Phoebe Snow | 4:38 |
| 11 | Nickel Plate Road No. 759 | 1:07 |
| 12 | Wabash Cannonball/Tolono | 5:26 |
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Thank you so much for posting this. I was truly fortunate to have seen Utah Phillips play at my college in the 1970s. He was living in New England at the time and visited to lecture in a class of American Literature of the 1930s offered by a professor who was active, as well as prominent, in both the peace and Catholic Worker movements. I was not enrolled in the class and, consequently, missed the lecture but attended Phillip's concert in the college's small auditorium.
Phillips was not only a fine singer but a great raconteur. He was warm and humorous as he regaled us with stories about the Wobblies and the American labor movement. He had the ability to make history come alive and directly relevant to our experience. He was one of those people whom one wished would live forever because he embodied through his life's activities and commitments a genuine love for working people and a deep passion for justice, and communicated his ideas warmly and persuasively, rather than angrily or didactically. Ironically, although my degree was in Foreign Languages, I became a specialist in Employee and Labor Relations for the federal government for twenty seven years and would often remember Phillips, like Pete Seeger and Studs Terkel, as one of the voices who inspired me to regard what I did as important.
Phillips had a definite purpose in relating his experiences and historical perspective. In describing the importance of such memories and experiences, he said "....[T]he long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we're going, but where we want to go." In retrospect, I now know that Phillips was several years younger than my parents but when I saw him he seemed wiser and far more knowledgeable about so much that I consider important. He was truly a wise elder even though he was only forty when I saw him. Among his many activities, he mentored Ani DiFranco and Kate Wolf. Sadly Wolf has been gone for nearly thirty years but DiFranco is still with us as a singular and political voice in music. Today in the United States, we lack vital, optimistic and inspiring radical voices such as Phillips and I have no doubt that we will not see his like again.
Thank you for consistently providing the music of folk artists, such as Phillips, Ewan MacColl, Tom Rush, Peter LaFarge, and Phil Ochs, who deserve to be remembered but are rarely played on the airwaves today and, consequently, are unknown to younger generations. Thank you, too, for providing so much great music in German, Yiddish, Spanish, and other languages. I have found no other blog that offers what yours does and listening to the music, and recorded books and poetry you post enriches my and my children's lives.
i can't tell you how much i'm looking forward to listening to this album again. i had the great good fortune to spend a lot of time with Utah over the last dozen years of his life- he was a friend, a challenging mentor and the essence of a stand-up guy.
thanks for the chance to hear him again. tears will fall....
respect,
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Wow, thanks a lot to both of you for sharing your moving memories with us. All the best to you!
By the way: Now there´s a fresh working link...
super! joe hills einziger wirklich legitimer nachfahre...
Glad you are interested in that kind of music. Greetings!
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