Utah Phillips
The Moscow Hold
© 1999 Red House Records (033651011828)
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This is a collection of tall tales guaranteed, in Utah's words, to "liven up any wedding, funeral, or bar mitzvah with this paean to oral flatulence."
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- UTAH PHILLIPS AND LARRY PENN: May Day at the Pabst
- UTAH PHILLIPS: Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook
- UTAH PHILLIPS, MARK ROSS, BOB & DIANA SUCKIEL, KUDDIE, BRUCE BRA: The Rose Tattoo
- UTAH PHILLIPS: Making Speech Free
- UTAH PHILLIPS & ANI DIFRANCO: Fellow Workers
- UTAH PHILLIPS: Loafer's Glory
- UTAH PHILLIPS: The Telling Takes Me Home
- JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Heart Songs: The Old Time Country Songs of Utah Phillips
- UTAH PHILLIPS & ROSALIE SORRELS: The Long Memory
- UTAH PHILLIPS & ANI DIFRANCO: The Past Didn't Go Anywhere
- UTAH PHILLIPS: I've Got to Know
- UTAH PHILLIPS: We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years
- UTAH PHILLIPS: Good Though
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Utah Phillips has crafted a fascinating show out of his life. In the course of seventy years he has labored as a dishwasher, archivist, printer, and warehouseman; soldiered in the Korean War; lived as a tramp (he is still a Grand Duke of Hoboes), and for the past 36 years made his way telling stories and singing songs. He has the wit, humor, bite, and intelligence of a Mark Twain or a Will Rogers, and behind his "Everyman" appearance is a consummate artist. Peppered with one-liners and offhand philosophical commentary, Utah's revealing stories, about such spirited American characters as Charley Goodnight, Mother Jones, and Idaho Blackie, tell our true history and connect us to American traditions that are genuinely ours.
Utah Phillips is described as "a national treasure, a writer of haunting songs, a storyteller of hilarious presence and subtle depth, a union organizer, historian and scholar, a Celtic-Yiddish bard, a Pleistocene bon vivant, a post-modern ne'er-do-well, and a heck of an engineer." A 40-year member of the Industrial Workers of the World, he is the most entertaining labor troubadour of our time, leading his audience on an emotional rollercoaster with side-splitting storytelling and fire-breathing working class songs. According to one reviewer, "Phillips exemplifies some of the traits which Americans most value: an open and inquisitive mind, a daring heart, and a sharp but humorous tongue." The Boston Globe said, "Phillips above all is a consummate showman, a master of the theater...Phillips has a genius for making people laugh and care at the same time." He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the North American Folk Alliance, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Western Labor Heritage Foundation, and the Joe Hill Award from the Labor Heritage Foundation-AFL-CIO, among many others.