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

episode 60 / New and Old Friends 28.07.2022 56:40 ↓

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.

Episode 59 / Mulligan Stew 21.07.2022 56:33 ↓

Off again with old and new: hobo songs, poems, and lore, including Nat Willis, Josh White, and Rube Waddle (who captures the madness.)

Episode 58 / Poetry 14.07.2022 55:38 ↓

Ferlinghetti, Lenny Bruce, Robert Service, Gill Scott Heron, and great poets you have likely never heard off.

Episode 57 / California 30.06.2022 55:32 ↓

From the Spanish conquest to the Farmworkers' picket line, from Julia Butterfly to the Suburban Shaman, songs to explain some kind of real California.

Episode 56 / Another Dealers Choice 23.06.2022 55:11 ↓

I'll take you from Reverend Gary Davis to throwing the TV out the window.

Episode 55 / Labor Gazette 17.06.2022 55:29 ↓

Songs ranging from the railroad strike of 1887 to the battle of Seattle.

Episode 53 / Dealer's Choice 02.06.2022 54:53 ↓

Behan singing Behan, Robert Service reciting his own work, and songs of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad.

Episode 53 / Down Under 26.05.2022 54:29 ↓

A collection of old songs from Australia: drovers, drunks Anzacs, and the first people.

Episode 52 / The Event That Shaped the 20th Century 12.05.2022 56:48 ↓

World War I songs, stories, poems, and rants, mostly from original material.

Episode 51 / The Elegant Hobo 05.05.2022 55:13 ↓

The wanderer's mail service, Feather Ben, and new songs about tramping.

Episode 50 / Labor Today 28.04.2022 56:37 ↓

Walmart, the boycott at Dunn's Department Store, and my first experience with job action.

Episode 49 / My West 21.04.2022 56:47 ↓

Personal reflection and songs about wandering the West, including the the amazing but true story of the dreaded Moscow Hold.

Episode 48 / Christian Music 07.04.2022 56:02 ↓

This is all Christian music intended to restore my faith that this oft benighted faith might yet attain a useful social role.

episode 47 / Labor Day 31.03.2022 55:48 ↓

Saco and Vanzetti to the bank job in Kutlesburg.

Episode 46 / 17.03.2022 55:14 ↓

A collection of comedy.

Episode 45 / More Spoken Word 10.03.2022 55:54 ↓

The sound of words well spoken: Gamble Rodgers, Judi Bari, Norman Thomas and Lord Buckley (as Mahatma Gandhi.)

Episode 44 / Bodie Wagner 03.03.2022 56:01 ↓

A Singing interview with busker, carpenter, hobo, song-crafter, and longtime friend Bodie Wagner.

Episode 43 / Live Concert 17.02.2022 57:04 ↓

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."

Episode 42 / More Spoken Word 10.02.2022 55:05 ↓

Spoken word, poetry, including "Upon the Wooded Hill" by my wife, Joanna Robinson, and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew'" recited by Lord Buckley.

Episode 41 / Utah Arcana 03.02.2022 56:52 ↓

Here's a collection of homemade songs I seldom get around to singing.

Episode 40 / Spoken Word 27.01.2022 56:47 ↓

The music of language spoken with humor, pathos and dignity. Myron Cohen to Vachal Lindsay.

Episode 39 / Off the Cuff 13.01.2022 55:49 ↓

This program is just me, a mic, and a guitar. Tales with songs to match.

Episode 38 / Peace 06.01.2022 55:07 ↓

Speaking and singing out for peace, Pete Seeger, Victor Jara, "Smoke-Jumpers," and Chickens for Peace.

Episode 37 / Labor Songs 30.12.2021 56:23 ↓

Labor songs, from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to the Great Ohio Fast Food Fire.

Episode 36 / More Tramp Songs 22.12.2021 56:55 ↓

A collection of tales and songs from the, skids, alleys, and missions. Rare tramp songs from Sophie Tucker and Al Jolson.