Utah Phillips Hosts - Loafer's Glory / A Hobo Jungle Of The Mind

Episode 85 / Pete Seeger & People's Songs 04.09.2023 55:53 ↓

An interview with Pete Seeger, co-founder of the 1946 People's Song movement, which became the seed bed for the folk music revival.

Episode 84 / White Pine Shorty 23.07.2023 55:51 ↓

Song tales about the West - my West. Diamond Mountain to old Nebrasky...oh, and some of the unknown places.

Episode 83 / Tickle Up the Trout 18.07.2023 56:31 ↓

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.

Episode 82 / Andrew Carnegie's Library 23.05.2023 55:48 ↓

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.

Episode 81 / Anybody's Guess 11.05.2023 55:33 ↓

Musical Saw, Pompelli's Cave, Talkin' Ma Nature-who knows where the human mind will take you.

Episode 79 / Thunder, Lighting & Rainbows 31.03.2023 55:24 ↓

Tramp songs and lore with an edge. The life of a "jolly hobo" -oh,yeah.

Episode 80 / No American Music 17.02.2023 55:02 ↓

Here you get Mickey Katz and Yiddish parody, kids on strike, and Dan Bern's extremely moving ballad about the school shooting in Colorado.

Episode 78 / Women In My Life 02.02.2023 55:59 ↓

From Lake George to Timbuctu, a protracted dither including Judi Bari's scathing rant on Francis Bacon.

Episode 77 / Palm Trees and Polotics 26.01.2023 55:54 ↓

What I know about the Hawaiian music. Also an interview with the prime minister of the reinstated government of Hawaii.

Episode 76 / Utie and the Blowhards 19.01.2023 55:32 ↓

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.

Episode 75 / What Is It About John McCormack 05.01.2023 55:11 ↓

Here are concert singers John McCormack, Jan Pierce, and Paul Robeson, plus rare old pieces from Peter Dawson and Clifford Jackson.

Episode 73 / Broke Toe 08.12.2022 57:05 ↓

A mix of labor, civil rights, and oddball cowboy songs. Don't miss the rare paean from Broke Toe Rezo himself.

Episode 72 / The Streets Take You In 17.11.2022 54:27 ↓

Ruminations, perturbations, and rants about homelessness, including Terminal Neon by the great John Trudell

Episode 70 / Tell Me a Story 03.11.2022 55:31 ↓

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

Episode 69 / Good Company 20.10.2022 45:58 ↓

Songs and stories of political prisoners to nurture the spirit of civil disobedience.

Episode 68 / Now I Really LIke This One 13.10.2022 53:30 ↓

Something of everything. My very own "NPR Talking Blues," rolling on to Studs Terkel reciting "The Scab's Lament."

Episode 67 / Annual Labor Day Program 22.09.2022 55:39 ↓

From red batting to down sizing, the labor movement continues to growl and sing.

Episode 66 / The Fading of the old West 15.09.2022 53:19 ↓

A winding tale from "An Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight" to Walking Jim Stolz's "The Spirit Is Still on the Run."

Episode 65 / "The Wild Dogs of Kitiwanga" 08.09.2022 55:54 ↓

More new tramp songs from Mark Ross, Kuddie, Luther the Jet, Larry Penn, and Al Grierson.

Episode 64 / Maine 01.09.2022 56:36 ↓

Songs, stories and poems collected while traveling through Maine several months ago.

Episode 63 / Sad Old Songs 18.08.2022 56:29 ↓

"The Drunkard's Son," "Old Shep," and more.

Episode 62 / Me Being Weird 11.08.2022 56:26 ↓

My first trumpet recital and field recordings from the jungles of Columbia. This one makes no sense.

Episode 61 / Folk Songs 04.08.2022 56:33 ↓

What are they? How do they grow and change? I define this once and for all.