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	Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips, Fellow Workers
		But it's Utah Phillips, her grizzled partner on this album, who will keep the CD playing.
		The album's 18 tracks were recorded in front of a live in-studio audience and, while it's a given they're already on the side of the performers, the crowd's reactions give the recording the feel of a folk benefit and workers' rally.
		Phillips' down-home style of singing and talking is a treat to hear, and little touches -- like when, in "The Saw-Playing Musician," he is diverted from one story to tell another and forgets where he was in the first -- add to the live, you-were-there feel.
	www.rambles.net /utah_workers.html (760 words)

	Utah Phillips - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Phillips served the United States Army for three years beginning in 1956.
		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.
		An avid railfan, Phillips has recorded several albums of music related to the railroads, especially the era of steam locomotives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Utah_Phillips (398 words)

	The Progressive Interview \| Utah Phillips \| The Progressive
		The son of labor organizers, Phillips was active in labor and leftist politics in conservative Utah during the 1960s and ran for the U.S. Senate in 1968 on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket.
		Phillips: It was Ammon Hennacy who took over my life, told me that I really loved the country, that I couldn't stand the government, taught me why I needed to be a pacifist and taught me why I needed to be an anarchist, and taught me what those things really mean.
		Phillips: It is a shame and a crime that a young person can graduate from high school not knowing what a scab is, not knowing workers have the absolute right to collective bargaining, to form a union, to join a union.
	progressive.org /?q=node/1096 (2695 words)

	The Past Didn't Go Anywhere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Utah Phillips, as Christopher Dunn from Utah Phillips Org describes him, is "Described by himself as the Golden Voice of the Great Southwest, he is described by others as a true eclectic, archivist, historian, activist, philosopher, hobo, tramp, member of the IWW, and just about everything in between.
		Utah Phillips is a nationally known folk artist, singer/story teller, Grammy Award Nominee for his work with Ani Difranco, and hosts his own weekly radio show - Loafer's Glory: The Hobo Jungle of the Mind.
		Utah Phillips is also one of the most important songwriters to be found in North America." Simply, Utah Philllips is a legend.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/starsnewsies/utah.html (208 words)

	Living protest (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As it happened, Utah Phillips was in town that weekend, doing a show for the IWW, and he got to attend the convention and catch up with some of the Orphan Train kids.
		In the early 1960s, Utah was cutting his performance teeth playing in taverns when Kenneth Goldstein, a folklorist from the University of Pennsylvania, overheard him and invited him to record his first record.
		Utah’s May 11 show at the Ark is being billed as "The Birthday Show," and it makes the best kind of sense that all these milestones should be seen as cause for celebration.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=7642 (1085 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| Sharps & flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the populist tradition of Mark Twain and Will Rogers, Phillips' comedy is half ribald and half common sense, full of lighthearted love of the People and a biting scorn for all upper-class absurdities.
		Phillips has been a professional folkster for 20 years, and on the road for 20 more as a Utah state archivist, Industrial Workers of the World organizer and perennial losing candidate for public office.
		Phillips' waiter -- who protests management speed-ups by cleaning soup spoons with his used handkerchief -- is a direct descendent of track-layer John Henry and his symbolic victory over the train.
	www.salon.com /ent/music/review/1999/08/25/utah (560 words)

	Sacramento News and Review November 29, 2001
		Phillips doesn’t buy President George Bush’s assertion that this is a new kind of war, noting the similarities between Afghanistan and Vietnam: “Intervention in a civil war.
		Phillips sees economic incentive as playing into the motivation for our war on terrorism and points to the oil reserves in Kazakhstan and Afghanistan as the “ideal route to transport it is through the Persian Gulf.
		Phillips reminds me that the U.S. is the only country to have used an atomic bomb against a civilian population, twice.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2001-11-29/news.asp (2031 words)

	SECTION 3 - utah phillips / ani difranco "fellow workers"
		Utah Phillips¹ parents were union organizers in the 1930¹s.
		Utah Phillips, still a member of Industrial Workers of the World, has actually been active since the 60¹s.
		In bringing Utah Phillips to the ears of a new audience (for the second time, see The Past Didn¹t Go Anywhere, 1996), Ani is marching strong within the folk music tradition; she is bringing experience and history to new audiences through music.
	www.section3.com /records/utahani_workers.shtml (679 words)

	Utah Phillips, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Phillips and Ross initially worked together in the late-1980s when problems with Phillips contracted focal distonia in his right hand which prevented him from fingerpicking and dupytren in his left hand which made it difficult for him to make a chord.
		As a youngster, Phillips was influenced by his exposure to the theater after his parents were divorced and his mother was re-married to the manager of the Hippodrome in Cleveland, one of the last of the old vaudeville houses.
		The experience caused Phillips to recall the anger that he felt when Anderson had come to Utah to perform at his step-father's theater and she had ben refused entry into the town's hotel.
	www.emusic.com /artist/11573/11573392.html (983 words)

	Utah Phillips, Good Though! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Phillips, now based in Nevada City, California, and limited to performing about once a month due to a heart ailment, is a larger-than-life figure who has developed into a counter-culture icon.
		For Phillips, far too many youngsters are growing up without ever having ridden on a train and are missing out on experiencing one of this country's seminal methods of travel.
		Phillips' songs primarily provide the railroading love and lore that is at the core of Phillips although the characters often portrayed within them mirror both the wondrous peaks and the shameful valleys of the human spirit.
	www.rambles.net /utah_good.html (381 words)

	Voting for the First Time: A Conversation With Utah Phillips : Thunderbay IMC
		Utah Phillips is a folk singer who tours the United States, delighting audiences with his outlandish stories and challenging them with the ruthless honesty of his insights.
		He met Ammon Hennacy in Utah at the Joe Hill House for Transients and Migrants and discovered anarchy and pacifism.
		Utah Phillips: This is not easy for me. I'm an and I've been an anarchist many, many years.
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=16043 (1048 words)

	Lineonline - Fresno's Art Journal
		Utah Phillips' words flow from his soul, creating an auditory feast for listeners.
		Phillips' performance in Fresno will include true tales, arm waving, heavy duty rants, songs about trains, tramps, labor unions and "all the things that happen to us when we are in and out of love.
		Phillips has decided to increase his live performance schedule and is also busy on a recording project for Smithsonian Folkways.
	www.lineonline.org /utah/utah2.htm (747 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 'Boring' folk songs are Phillips' forte
		Utah Phillips, legendary folk singer, storyteller and homespun philosopher, came home Thursday night.
		He appeared before a sold-out cross-generational crowd filled with equal numbers of high school and college students and their parents and grandparents, at a benefit for Utah Jobs With Justice, and he was definitely among friends.
		Throughout the evening, Phillips sang and talked with an unvarnished honesty and an authenticity that gets rarer as his generation moves on.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600112845,00.html (428 words)

	CMT.com : Utah Phillips : Biography
		Phillips' political awareness was inherited from his parents who were union organizers in the 1930s.
		Phillips' use of music as a political weapon was strongly influenced by Hennessey.
		Phillips continued to balance his love of music with his political involvement.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/phillips_utah/bio.jhtml (943 words)

	Eye - Rabble Rousing 101 with Utah Phillips - 02.13.97
		Utah began riding the rails as a teen and gathering stories from the hoboes he met.
		Phillips, who considers himself a craftsman and a worker, is modest about accolades, and he offered the Folk Alliance a dozen names of people he considered more deserving of the award.
		Not surprisingly, Phillips also has the rare enough distinction of having a well-considered answer when asked what his work and life is about.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.13.97/music/mcglynn.html (811 words)

	Utah Oil Industry
		Utah is usually thought of as a coal state, not an oil state, but since 1960 its oil fields and its refineries have usually produced more Btu's of energy than Utah's coal mines.
		Utah’s refining capacity is about 1% of the total national capacity, but is significant for the region accounting for 29% of the PAD district IV operating capacity (EIA January 2000).
		Utah’s refineries are small in comparison to the 200,000 — 500,000 bpd refineries in the big oil refining states of California, Louisiana, and Texas but they are typical for the mountain region.
	utahrails.net /articles/oil.php (4134 words)

	SECTION 3 - utah phillips "the past didn't go anywhere"
		Ani is the woman who had enough, the ultimate rebel, and she¹s not even about to release a major label album and mass-market her music anytime soon.
		Utah Phillips is an old Korean War defector, traveling musician, bard-in-the-truest-meaning-of-the-word.
		Ani took Utah¹s tales and added (mostly) hip-hop background music to combine the ³old² Utah tales with the sounds of the ³young² pop-culture world, to show that, as the title suggests, people and times don¹t change, just the scenery and vocabulary.
	www.section3.com /records/utah_past.shtml (260 words)

	Utah Phillips' Saturday Concert a First (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Utah Phillips at a recent peace march in Grass Valley.
		Phillips said he's recovering from surgery to alleviate Dupuytren's Contracture, an illness that contracts tendons in his hands.
		Phillips said that Woody Guthrie heard his mom sing while she was doing laundry and learned from her.
	www.yubanet.com /artman/publish/article_54734.shtml (582 words)

	Rosalie Sorrels, Utah Phillips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Veteran folksingers Sorrels and Phillips create a loving tribute to labor music (with an emphasis on factory workers and miners) in this exquisitely performed collection of songs, stories, and poetry.
		The material ranges from contemporary acoustic folk fare (penned by the likes of Si Kahn and Phillips) to folk ditties by that all-purpose singer "Unknown" who resides in the "Public Domain." One of the high points is a song by Malvina Reynolds, who's best remembered for the way her "Ticky Tacky" attacked mindless conformity.
		Equally winning is Phillips doing her own "All Used Up," a wry look at personal and planetary entropy.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/97/07/31/OTR/ROSALIE_SORRELS_UTAH_PHILL.html (197 words)

	Phillips and Associates Law Firm - Arizona Personal Injury Lawyers, Bankruptcy Lawyers, Criminal Defense Lawyers
		While Phillips and Associates primary office is in Phoenix, Arizona, we have numerous offices throughout Arizona and we are representing clients all over the United States in all areas of serious accident and catastrophic personal injury, product liability, medical malpractice, Vioxx and other pharmaceutical litigation.
		Phillips and Associates is one of Arizona's largest privately retained criminal and DUI defense firms.
		Phillips and Associates in Arizona is one of the largest consumer law firms in the state.
	www.phillipslaw.com (499 words)

	St. Clair Productions - Tickets - Utah Phillips, Songwriter/storyteller
		Bruce Phillips aka U. Utah Phillips, "The Golden Voice of the Great Southwest," singer, songwriter, storyteller and Grand Duke of the Britt, Iosa, Hobo Convention, is one of the most durable fixtures in the folk community.
		Utah's songs were picked up and covered by Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, John Denver, Flatt and Scruggs and even actres Debbie Reynolds.
		Utah, himself, has recorded eight albums on various labels and his performances have been included on three collections.
	www.stclairevents.com /tickets_20060202.htm (357 words)

	KVMR On Air Personality - U. Utah Phillips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"The Railroad is a long steel thread that stitches together much of the American experience." So says Utah Phillips, Grand Master of the self-inflicted mythic fraternity of tramps, hoboes, and rare-do-wells known as The Rose Tattoo.
		Hovering on the edge of reality, Utah Phillips brings together a diverse collection of songs and stories steeped in the life of those who hold in common their experience of travel by freight train, an ability to carry a tune, and the tattoo of a rose somewhere on their person.
		You can also visit with U. Utah Phillips, "The Golden Voice of the Great Southwest" at his own website, http://www.utahphillips.org/
	www.kvmr.org /personalities/u_phillips.html (139 words)

	Folkstuff: Utah Phillips in Concert
		Interruption upon wonderful digression upon extended aside is as much a part of Utah on stage as his music.
		Once believed to be the figment of Rosalie Sorrels' imagination, Utah Phillips is among the folk music world's most respected voices (craggy as it is).
		Utah Phillips, "officially" retired from touring for more than five years now, is coming to Ithaca again after an absence so long Folk Song Club members can't even remember exactly when it was.
	www.tedcrane.com /folkstuff/200302_Phillips.htp (211 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Phillips hitting road back to Utah
		If you were given to metaphorical musings, you might say that Bruce "Utah" Phillips' life has been one big long road trip.
		But, he said, "it was clear that I'd run out of moves in Utah." In 1969, in a driving rain and with $75 in his pocket, Phillips loaded up his VW bus and left the state he knew as home.
		Several years ago, Phillips was diagnosed with congenital heart disease, and that has slowed him down some, he said.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600111127,00.html (745 words)

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		Bruce "U. Utah" Phillips is the fundamental pragmatist who makes stories of any raw material that finds its way into his experience.
		At the end of a workday, Phillips went to the library to read territorial history to find questions to ask Lyman the next day.
		Phillips ran away from home in his teens to gain an education on the road, riding the rails and bumming along with tramps.
	www.righteousbabe.com /artists/utahphillips/index.asp (364 words)

	Utah Phillips
		But one of the best contemporary practicioners is Utah Phillips, whose folk songs, political barbs and telling of tales have made him a favorite on the folk music circuit.
		Phillips, whose tongue-in-cheek nickname is "the Golden Voice of the Great Southwest,'' will appear Saturday at the Sebastopol Veterans Memorial Building in a benefit for the Sonoma County Peace and Justice Center.
		Phillips has been telling his stories and singing his songs ever since, and has found an ever-growing audience for them at nightclubs, concerts and folk festivals.
	home.comcast.net /~2samsons/Chris/Writing/Musicians/utah.html (769 words)

	DIYmedia.net Featured MP3s - Utah Phillips
		Utah Phillips is a legend in folk music and activist circles of all stripes.
		Utah's wit and storytelling talent allow him to be thoughtfully radical that can touch people in ways that a more "direct" approach would turn them off (although he himself is a big believer in direct action).
		The version provided here was recorded during Utah's October 2003 appearance on A Prairie Home Companion - one of NPR's most popular programs, and was dedicated not only to KVMR but "all of you brave what we call now 'microbroadcasters' who are workin' hard to take back the people's airwaves."
	www.diymedia.net /audio/mp3utahphillips.htm (159 words)

	Currents
		Born and raised in Bountiful, Utah, Holbrook was a Young Republican working for Utah Congressman Sherm Lloyd in Washington D.C. during the summer of 1963.
		One of the latest additions to the National Register in Utah is the Ogden Central Bench Historic District, which was officially listed on July 22, 2005, and is the largest of Utah’s 50 historic districts—80 blocks large.
		Utah’s Preserve America towns have earned this status by creating walking tours, Historic Districts, museums, markers, festivals (like the Western Legends Roundup in Kanab or Vintage Days in Murray), town preservation projects (like Payson’s Peteetneet Academy, which now houses a cultural arts center and history museum), historic main street revitalization, and more.
	history.utah.gov /news_and_events/currents (5845 words)

	Utah Phillips - Cambridge - Music - Boston Globe
		Sure, his unruly white beard might get in the way, but Phillips is the kind of guy you'd want to sit next to on a long plane ride.
		For nearly four decades, Phillips has been doing just that through his labor and protest songs, as well as his lively hobo tales of life on the rails.
		Utah Phillips Club Passim Cambridge MA 47 Palmer St.
	calendar.boston.com /events/show/894531-Utah-Phillips (183 words)

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