A reproduction of shows featuring legendary folk singer Bruce Utah Phillips. A collage of rants, poetry, tales and reminiscences mixed with little known music and talk from over 1,000 tapes of everything under the sun, from tramping and labor (historic and contemporary) to baseball and old friends...from unreleased Lord Buckley to animals, children, tall tales, Paul Robeson, and most of what you need to know about life on the open road...and always music.
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An interview with Pete Seeger, co-founder of the 1946 People's Song movement, which became the seed bed for the folk music revival.The Long Memory
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Song tales about the West - my West. Diamond Mountain to old Nebrasky...oh, and some of the unknown places.The Long Memory
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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.The Long Memory
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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.The Long Memory
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Musical Saw, Pompelli's Cave, Talkin' Ma Nature-who knows where the human mind will take you.The Long Memory
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Tramp songs and lore with an edge. The life of a "jolly hobo" -oh,yeah.The Long Memory
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Here you get Mickey Katz and Yiddish parody, kids on strike, and Dan Bern's extremely moving ballad about the school shooting in Colorado.The Long Memory
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From Lake George to Timbuctu, a protracted dither including Judi Bari's scathing rant on Francis Bacon.The Long Memory
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What I know about the Hawaiian music. Also an interview with the prime minister of the reinstated government of Hawaii.The Long Memory
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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.The Long Memory
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Here are concert singers John McCormack, Jan Pierce, and Paul Robeson, plus rare old pieces from Peter Dawson and Clifford Jackson.The Long Memory
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A mix of labor, civil rights, and oddball cowboy songs. Don't miss the rare paean from Broke Toe Rezo himself.The Long Memory
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Ruminations, perturbations, and rants about homelessness, including Terminal Neon by the great John TrudellThe Long Memory
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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 WindhamThe Long Memory
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Songs and stories of political prisoners to nurture the spirit of civil disobedience.The Long Memory
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Something of everything. My very own "NPR Talking Blues," rolling on to Studs Terkel reciting "The Scab's Lament."The Long Memory
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From red batting to down sizing, the labor movement continues to growl and sing.The Long Memory
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A winding tale from "An Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight" to Walking Jim Stolz's "The Spirit Is Still on the Run."The Long Memory
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More new tramp songs from Mark Ross, Kuddie, Luther the Jet, Larry Penn, and Al Grierson.The Long Memory
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Songs, stories and poems collected while traveling through Maine several months ago.The Long Memory
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"The Drunkard's Son," "Old Shep," and more.The Long Memory
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My first trumpet recital and field recordings from the jungles of Columbia. This one makes no sense.The Long Memory
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What are they? How do they grow and change? I define this once and for all.The Long Memory
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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.The Long Memory
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Off again with old and new: hobo songs, poems, and lore, including Nat Willis, Josh White, and Rube Waddle (who captures the madness.)The Long Memory
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Ferlinghetti, Lenny Bruce, Robert Service, Gill Scott Heron, and great poets you have likely never heard off.The Long Memory
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From the Spanish conquest to the Farmworkers' picket line, from Julia Butterfly to the Suburban Shaman, songs to explain some kind of real California.The Long Memory
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I'll take you from Reverend Gary Davis to throwing the TV out the window.The Long Memory
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Songs ranging from the railroad strike of 1887 to the battle of Seattle.The Long Memory
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Behan singing Behan, Robert Service reciting his own work, and songs of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad.The Long Memory
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A collection of old songs from Australia: drovers, drunks Anzacs, and the first people.The Long Memory
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World War I songs, stories, poems, and rants, mostly from original material.The Long Memory
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The wanderer's mail service, Feather Ben, and new songs about tramping.The Long Memory
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Walmart, the boycott at Dunn's Department Store, and my first experience with job action.The Long Memory
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Personal reflection and songs about wandering the West, including the the amazing but true story of the dreaded Moscow Hold.The Long Memory
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This is all Christian music intended to restore my faith that this oft benighted faith might yet attain a useful social role.The Long Memory
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Saco and Vanzetti to the bank job in Kutlesburg.The Long Memory
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A collection of comedy.The Long Memory
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The sound of words well spoken: Gamble Rodgers, Judi Bari, Norman Thomas and Lord Buckley (as Mahatma Gandhi.)The Long Memory
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A Singing interview with busker, carpenter, hobo, song-crafter, and longtime friend Bodie Wagner.The Long Memory
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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."The Long Memory
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Spoken word, poetry, including "Upon the Wooded Hill" by my wife, Joanna Robinson, and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew'" recited by Lord Buckley.The Long Memory
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Here's a collection of homemade songs I seldom get around to singing.The Long Memory
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The music of language spoken with humor, pathos and dignity. Myron Cohen to Vachal Lindsay.The Long Memory
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This program is just me, a mic, and a guitar. Tales with songs to match.The Long Memory
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Speaking and singing out for peace, Pete Seeger, Victor Jara, "Smoke-Jumpers," and Chickens for Peace.The Long Memory
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Labor songs, from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to the Great Ohio Fast Food Fire.The Long Memory
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A collection of tales and songs from the, skids, alleys, and missions. Rare tramp songs from Sophie Tucker and Al Jolson.The Long Memory
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