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Utah Phillips
A reproduction of shows featuring legendary folk singer Bruce Utah Phillips. A collage of rants, poetry, tales and reminiscences mixed with little known music and talk from over 1,000 tapes of everything under the sun, from tramping and labor (historic and contemporary) to baseball and old friends...from unreleased Lord Buckley to animals, children, tall tales, Paul Robeson, and most of what you need to know about life on the open road...and always music.
An interview with Pete Seeger, co-founder of the 1946 People's Song movement, which became the seed bed for the folk music revival.
Song tales about the West - my West. Diamond Mountain to old Nebrasky...oh, and some of the unknown places.
Every-thing from Simon and Garfunkle in Hebrew to George Gobel's "You Are My Sunshine." Also Baby Gramps will show you how to go wash an elephant.
Includes one of the best songs I ever heard, "Cry of the Morning."This program goes out to the young people who need to know what the boss has in store for them.
Musical Saw, Pompelli's Cave, Talkin' Ma Nature-who knows where the human mind will take you.
Here you get Mickey Katz and Yiddish parody, kids on strike, and Dan Bern's extremely moving ballad about the school shooting in Colorado.
From Lake George to Timbuctu, a protracted dither including Judi Bari's scathing rant on Francis Bacon.
What I know about the Hawaiian music. Also an interview with the prime minister of the reinstated government of Hawaii.
This one's a live concert of The Rose Tattoo, a conclave of me and some old friends of the road singing and yarning about life on the trains.
Here are concert singers John McCormack, Jan Pierce, and Paul Robeson, plus rare old pieces from Peter Dawson and Clifford Jackson.
A mix of labor, civil rights, and oddball cowboy songs. Don't miss the rare paean from Broke Toe Rezo himself.
Ruminations, perturbations, and rants about homelessness, including Terminal Neon by the great John Trudell
Some ideas on why stories work, how they're hung together. From the roar of Johnny Handle's Jordy sermon to the quiet of Kathryn Windham
Something of everything. My very own "NPR Talking Blues," rolling on to Studs Terkel reciting "The Scab's Lament."
A winding tale from "An Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight" to Walking Jim Stolz's "The Spirit Is Still on the Run."
More new tramp songs from Mark Ross, Kuddie, Luther the Jet, Larry Penn, and Al Grierson.
My first trumpet recital and field recordings from the jungles of Columbia. This one makes no sense.
Here's a collection of songs and stories from some of my oldest friends, including "A Poem in Early Spring" by my wife Joanna Robinson.
Off again with old and new: hobo songs, poems, and lore, including Nat Willis, Josh White, and Rube Waddle (who captures the madness.)
Ferlinghetti, Lenny Bruce, Robert Service, Gill Scott Heron, and great poets you have likely never heard off.
From the Spanish conquest to the Farmworkers' picket line, from Julia Butterfly to the Suburban Shaman, songs to explain some kind of real California.
Behan singing Behan, Robert Service reciting his own work, and songs of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad.
A collection of old songs from Australia: drovers, drunks Anzacs, and the first people.
Walmart, the boycott at Dunn's Department Store, and my first experience with job action.
Personal reflection and songs about wandering the West, including the the amazing but true story of the dreaded Moscow Hold.
This is all Christian music intended to restore my faith that this oft benighted faith might yet attain a useful social role.
The sound of words well spoken: Gamble Rodgers, Judi Bari, Norman Thomas and Lord Buckley (as Mahatma Gandhi.)
A Singing interview with busker, carpenter, hobo, song-crafter, and longtime friend Bodie Wagner.
A recording from a live concert that I did in Ithaca, New York, which became the groundwork for my collaboration with Ani DiFranco on "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere."
Spoken word, poetry, including "Upon the Wooded Hill" by my wife, Joanna Robinson, and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew'" recited by Lord Buckley.
The music of language spoken with humor, pathos and dignity. Myron Cohen to Vachal Lindsay.
Speaking and singing out for peace, Pete Seeger, Victor Jara, "Smoke-Jumpers," and Chickens for Peace.
A collection of tales and songs from the, skids, alleys, and missions. Rare tramp songs from Sophie Tucker and Al Jolson.
The third episode is Franklin Roosevelt from 11 cent cotton, 40 cent meat to the 30-minute recording of "The Unforgotten Man" from the National Guardian.
The second of this series is all Paul Robeson, from his 1924"Sweet Bye-And-Bye to the legendary Peace Arch Concert.
One of three programs about the progressive movement from the sit-downs to Henry Wallace.
Once again we take to the rails with old and new tramp songs, plus tales of the Joe Hill House.
Dark, mysterious, odd songs, or sometimes funny tales about animals from "Old Sheep" to the "Great Silky" to "Chickens for Peace"
Recordings of Eisenhower, MacArthur, odd songs, and reflections on a boys experience of WWII.
Everything I love to hear that I couldn't squeeze in before: Malvina Reynolds, sacred harp, "Pear Bog Soldiers",,,on and on...
Singing and talking interview with my old friend Rosalie Sorrels via telephone from Grimes Creek, Idaho.
A singing and talking interview with Mark Ross, aka "Smoke Stack," the country's greatest singing tramp.
More singing and spouting out loud, mainly about the West, anarchy, and rainforest jerky.
Unitarians, Bugs Bunny, Gaelic poetry, John McCormack, and German opera ( Joesph Schmidt.)
I sing a lot of this one live. Labor's untold story, including the secret story of the birth of the AFL.
The Original 1927 "Casey at the Bat", the voices of Babe, Jackie, Low and Casey Stengle before congress;songs; poems; and a damn good rant.
Music of no particular relevance (whew!): Polish Bagpipes, jaw-harp, Spike Jones, and Alpin-horns.
Black History Month: Malcolm X, Mumia from prison, Delta blues, Billie Holiday, and the story of "Strange Fruit."