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.
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Episode 85 / Pete Seeger & People's Songs
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An interview with Pete Seeger, co-founder of the 1946 People's Song movement, which became the seed bed for the folk music revival.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 84 / White Pine Shorty
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Song tales about the West - my West. Diamond Mountain to old Nebrasky...oh, and some of the unknown places.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 83 / Tickle Up the Trout
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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.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 82 / Andrew Carnegie's Library
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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.De către The Long Memory
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Musical Saw, Pompelli's Cave, Talkin' Ma Nature-who knows where the human mind will take you.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 79 / Thunder, Lighting & Rainbows
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Tramp songs and lore with an edge. The life of a "jolly hobo" -oh,yeah.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 80 / No American Music
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Here you get Mickey Katz and Yiddish parody, kids on strike, and Dan Bern's extremely moving ballad about the school shooting in Colorado.De către The Long Memory
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From Lake George to Timbuctu, a protracted dither including Judi Bari's scathing rant on Francis Bacon.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 77 / Palm Trees and Polotics
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What I know about the Hawaiian music. Also an interview with the prime minister of the reinstated government of Hawaii.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 76 / Utie and the Blowhards
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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.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 75 / What Is It About John McCormack
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Here are concert singers John McCormack, Jan Pierce, and Paul Robeson, plus rare old pieces from Peter Dawson and Clifford Jackson.De către The Long Memory
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A mix of labor, civil rights, and oddball cowboy songs. Don't miss the rare paean from Broke Toe Rezo himself.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 72 / The Streets Take You In
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Ruminations, perturbations, and rants about homelessness, including Terminal Neon by the great John TrudellDe către The Long Memory
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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 WindhamDe către The Long Memory
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Songs and stories of political prisoners to nurture the spirit of civil disobedience.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 68 / Now I Really LIke This One
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Something of everything. My very own "NPR Talking Blues," rolling on to Studs Terkel reciting "The Scab's Lament."De către The Long Memory
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Episode 67 / Annual Labor Day Program
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From red batting to down sizing, the labor movement continues to growl and sing.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 66 / The Fading of the old West
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A winding tale from "An Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight" to Walking Jim Stolz's "The Spirit Is Still on the Run."De către The Long Memory
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Episode 65 / "The Wild Dogs of Kitiwanga"
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More new tramp songs from Mark Ross, Kuddie, Luther the Jet, Larry Penn, and Al Grierson.De către The Long Memory
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Songs, stories and poems collected while traveling through Maine several months ago.De către The Long Memory
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"The Drunkard's Son," "Old Shep," and more.De către The Long Memory
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My first trumpet recital and field recordings from the jungles of Columbia. This one makes no sense.De către The Long Memory
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What are they? How do they grow and change? I define this once and for all.De către The Long Memory
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episode 60 / New and Old Friends
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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.De către The Long Memory
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Off again with old and new: hobo songs, poems, and lore, including Nat Willis, Josh White, and Rube Waddle (who captures the madness.)De către The Long Memory
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Ferlinghetti, Lenny Bruce, Robert Service, Gill Scott Heron, and great poets you have likely never heard off.De către The Long Memory
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From the Spanish conquest to the Farmworkers' picket line, from Julia Butterfly to the Suburban Shaman, songs to explain some kind of real California.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 56 / Another Dealers Choice
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I'll take you from Reverend Gary Davis to throwing the TV out the window.De către The Long Memory
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Songs ranging from the railroad strike of 1887 to the battle of Seattle.De către The Long Memory
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Behan singing Behan, Robert Service reciting his own work, and songs of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad.De către The Long Memory
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A collection of old songs from Australia: drovers, drunks Anzacs, and the first people.De către The Long Memory
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Episode 52 / The Event That Shaped the 20th Century
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World War I songs, stories, poems, and rants, mostly from original material.De către The Long Memory
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The wanderer's mail service, Feather Ben, and new songs about tramping.De către The Long Memory
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Walmart, the boycott at Dunn's Department Store, and my first experience with job action.De către The Long Memory
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Personal reflection and songs about wandering the West, including the the amazing but true story of the dreaded Moscow Hold.De către The Long Memory
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This is all Christian music intended to restore my faith that this oft benighted faith might yet attain a useful social role.De către The Long Memory
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Saco and Vanzetti to the bank job in Kutlesburg.De către The Long Memory
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A collection of comedy.De către The Long Memory
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The sound of words well spoken: Gamble Rodgers, Judi Bari, Norman Thomas and Lord Buckley (as Mahatma Gandhi.)De către The Long Memory
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A Singing interview with busker, carpenter, hobo, song-crafter, and longtime friend Bodie Wagner.De către The Long Memory
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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."De către The Long Memory
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Spoken word, poetry, including "Upon the Wooded Hill" by my wife, Joanna Robinson, and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew'" recited by Lord Buckley.De către The Long Memory
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Here's a collection of homemade songs I seldom get around to singing.De către The Long Memory
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The music of language spoken with humor, pathos and dignity. Myron Cohen to Vachal Lindsay.De către The Long Memory
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This program is just me, a mic, and a guitar. Tales with songs to match.De către The Long Memory
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Speaking and singing out for peace, Pete Seeger, Victor Jara, "Smoke-Jumpers," and Chickens for Peace.De către The Long Memory
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Labor songs, from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to the Great Ohio Fast Food Fire.De către The Long Memory
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A collection of tales and songs from the, skids, alleys, and missions. Rare tramp songs from Sophie Tucker and Al Jolson.De către The Long Memory
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