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Utah Phillips
12+ albums
folksinger-songwriterpoliticalanarchistProtest
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Bruce "Utah" Phillips (b. May 15, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio; d. May 23, 2008 in Nevada City, Calif.) was a labor organizer, folk singer, songwriter, storyteller, poet and self-described "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He described the struggles of working people, labor unions and the power of direct action. He often promoted the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words. His original songs include the often-covered "Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia" and "Rock salt and nails." His official website is http://www.utahphillips.org/, and his blog is http://utahphillips.blogspot.com/ An obituary from Sing Out! magazine can be read at http://singout.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/bruce-utah-phillips-passes/ Utah Phillips' given name was Bruce Phillips. A fan of T. Texas Tyler, Phillips adopted the stage name U. Utah Phillips. Phillips served the United States Army for three years beginning in 1956. Witnessing the devastating effects of the post Korean War Korea greatly influenced his social and political thinking. Following service, he returned to Salt Lake City, Utah, and joined Ammon Hennacy from the Catholic Worker Movement in establishing a mission house of hospitality named after the activist Joe Hill. Phillips worked at the Joe Hill House for the next eight years, then ran for the U.S. Senate as a candidate of Utah's Peace and Freedom Party in 1968. He met folk singer Rosalie Sorrells in the early 1950's, and has remained a close friend of hers
top songs
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All Used up
6,2072We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years
4,1493The Preacher and the Slave
4,1384Solidarity Forever
3,6905This Land is Not Our Land
3,6016There Is Power in a Union
3,5307Bread and Roses
3,0668There Is Power In The Union - Live From Victoria, Courtenay, And Vancouver, British Columbia / February, 1981
2,9719We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years - Live From Victoria, Courtenay, And Vancouver, British Columbia / February, 1981
2,64210Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!
2,383albums
We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years
Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook
We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years (Live From Victoria, Courtenay, And Vancouver, British Columbia / February, 1981)
Making Speech Free
Good Though!
The Telling Takes Me Home
Fellow Workers
I've Got To Know
Good Though
The Past Didn't Go Anywhere
Don't Mourn-Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill
Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways