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

Episode 85 / Pete Seeger & People's Songs

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Mon, 4 Sep 2023 17:11:01 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 21:33:25 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:56:46 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Tue, 23 May 2023 11:44:45 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:08:38 +0000

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

Episode 79 / Thunder, Lighting & Rainbows

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:57:09 +0000

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

Episode 80 / No American Music

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:47:25 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 2 Feb 2023 17:02:36 +0000

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

Episode 77 / Palm Trees and Polotics

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:07:54 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 5 Jan 2023 17:21:41 +0000

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

Episode 74 / Paul Durst

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 19:10:32 +0000

Episode 73 / Broke Toe

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 8 Dec 2022 16:30:04 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:06:36 +0000

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

Episode 71 / United Front

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:07:50 +0000

Episode 70 / Tell Me a Story

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 3 Nov 2022 12:21:26 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 12:16:42 +0000

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

Episode 68 / Now I Really LIke This One

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:33:02 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:10:04 +0000

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

Episode 66 / The Fading of the old West

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:54:25 +0000

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"

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 8 Sep 2022 11:54:26 +0000

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

Episode 64 / Maine

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 1 Sep 2022 11:57:45 +0000

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

Episode 63 / Sad Old Songs

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 11:56:17 +0000

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

Episode 62 / Me Being Weird

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:04:29 +0000

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

Episode 61 / Folk Songs

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 4 Aug 2022 12:02:37 +0000

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

episode 60 / New and Old Friends

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:09:52 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:13:40 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:14:42 +0000

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

Episode 57 / California

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:01:49 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 12:04:55 +0000

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

Episode 55 / Labor Gazette

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:07:32 +0000

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

Episode 53 / Dealer's Choice

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 2 Jun 2022 11:57:28 +0000

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

Episode 53 / Down Under

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 26 May 2022 12:06:12 +0000

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

Episode 52 / The Event That Shaped the 20th Century

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 12 May 2022 12:08:22 +0000

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

Episode 51 / The Elegant Hobo

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 5 May 2022 12:07:52 +0000

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

Episode 50 / Labor Today

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 12:02:27 +0000

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

Episode 49 / My West

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 12:39:55 +0000

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

Episode 48 / Christian Music

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 7 Apr 2022 12:43:11 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:41:38 +0000

Saco and Vanzetti to the bank job in Kutlesburg.

Episode 46 /

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 12:50:10 +0000

A collection of comedy.

Episode 45 / More Spoken Word

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:02:35 +0000

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

Episode 44 / Bodie Wagner

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 3 Mar 2022 13:57:30 +0000

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

Episode 43 / Live Concert

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000

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

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 3 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000

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

Episode 40 / Spoken Word

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:46:10 +0000

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

Episode 39 / Off the Cuff

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:00:00 +0000

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

Episode 38 / Peace

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 6 Jan 2022 08:00:00 +0000

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

Episode 37 / Labor Songs

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 17:35:47 +0000

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

Episode 36 / More Tramp Songs

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 23:06:00 +0000

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

Episode 35 / The Progressive Movement Part 3

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:31:08 +0000

The third episode is Franklin Roosevelt from 11 cent cotton, 40 cent meat to the 30-minute recording of "The Unforgotten Man" from the National Guardian.

Episode 34 / The Progressive Movment, Part 2

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:14:47 +0000

The second of this series is all Paul Robeson, from his 1924"Sweet Bye-And-Bye to the legendary Peace Arch Concert.

Episode 33 / The Progresive Movment, Part 1

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:41:06 +0000

One of three programs about the progressive movement from the sit-downs to Henry Wallace.

Episode 32 / Satire

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 4 Nov 2021 02:31:14 +0000

Episode 31 / More Tramping

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:15:23 +0000

Tramp show #2, picking up where I left off some time ago.

Episode 30 / Tramp Songs

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sat, 9 Oct 2021 22:03:06 +0000

Once again we take to the rails with old and new tramp songs, plus tales of the Joe Hill House.

Episode 29 / Animals

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:51:31 +0000

Dark, mysterious, odd songs, or sometimes funny tales about animals from "Old Sheep" to the "Great Silky" to "Chickens for Peace"

Episode 28 / Memories Of WWII

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:27:15 +0000

Recordings of Eisenhower, MacArthur, odd songs, and reflections on a boys experience of WWII.

Episode 27 / Kids

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 11:37:37 +0000

Kids on strike, the f-word song, poems, and stories about kids' liberation.

Episode 26 / A Magical Welcome Back

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 9 Sep 2021 11:58:14 +0000

Songs of tales and magic, suspenders, and the Rose Tattoo.

Episode 25 / Jungle Stew

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 2 Sep 2021 11:58:32 +0000

Everything I love to hear that I couldn't squeeze in before: Malvina Reynolds, sacred harp, "Pear Bog Soldiers",,,on and on...

Episode 24 / Rosalie Sorrels

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 19:22:32 +0000

Singing and talking interview with my old friend Rosalie Sorrels via telephone from Grimes Creek, Idaho.

Episode 23 / Mark Ross

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sun, 8 Aug 2021 15:00:16 +0000

A singing and talking interview with Mark Ross, aka "Smoke Stack," the country's greatest singing tramp.

Episode 22 / Labor Songs

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Thu, 5 Aug 2021 00:23:10 +0000

Old time labor-songs and stories from 1790 through the black list.

Episode 21 / New Strike Music

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 20:18:21 +0000

It ain't over until it's over. New labor song still rolling off the picket lines.

Episode 20 / Out Loud and Suitably Outlandish

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sun, 4 Jul 2021 20:54:11 +0000

More singing and spouting out loud, mainly about the West, anarchy, and rainforest jerky.

Episode 19 / War & Peace

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sat, 22 May 2021 00:09:43 +0000

What it means to be a pacifist. Songs, stories, and ideas about war and peace.

Episode 18 / More Stew

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sun, 9 May 2021 13:56:44 +0000

Unitarians, Bugs Bunny, Gaelic poetry, John McCormack, and German opera ( Joesph Schmidt.)

Episode 17 / Labor's Untold Story

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sat, 1 May 2021 15:19:34 +0000

I sing a lot of this one live. Labor's untold story, including the secret story of the birth of the AFL.

Episode 16 / Utah

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 14:28:12 +0000

Songs and tales about my home state from one who climbed over the wall and escaped.

Episode 15 / Baseball

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sat, 3 Apr 2021 15:26:00 +0000

The Original 1927 "Casey at the Bat", the voices of Babe, Jackie, Low and Casey Stengle before congress;songs; poems; and a damn good rant.

Episode 14 / Musical Stew

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:23:41 +0000

Music of no particular relevance (whew!): Polish Bagpipes, jaw-harp, Spike Jones, and Alpin-horns.

Episode 13 / Cowboys

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 15:30:16 +0000

Cowboy songs and stories seldom heard from places too fierce to mention..

Episode 12 / Black History

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Wed, 3 Mar 2021 00:21:00 +0000

Black History Month: Malcolm X, Mumia from prison, Delta blues, Billie Holiday, and the story of "Strange Fruit."

Episode 11 / Radicalism

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:12:34 +0000

From Korea to the trains to Joe Hill House to radio and into your shell-like ear.

Episode 10 / Hard Times

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 21:44:16 +0000

Yip Harburg, Earl Robinson, Woody, Aunt Molly and Whitman live on an 1890's cylinder.

Episode 9 / Radio

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Tue, 9 Feb 2021 17:40:23 +0000

The story of radio from crystal set to "Sandman, The Mid-night D.J."

Episode 8 / Jack Johnson and the Titanic

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Tue, 2 Feb 2021 17:39:37 +0000

Jack Johnson and the Titanic collide with the Detroit newspaper strike.

Episode 7 / Politics

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:03:50 +0000

Ammon Hennacy to Aunt Molly Jackson defines folk music forever.

EPISODE 6 / Tramping

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:33:54 +0000

Life on the open road with the true and trembling tramp.

Episdoe 5 / Whimsical Stew

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:43:29 +0000

What the Hartz Mountain canaries and "The Rose of No Man's Land" have in common...

Episode 4 / Holidays

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Tue, 5 Jan 2021 17:05:28 +0000

Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Solstice Songs, Stories, Poems and Polemics.

Episode 3 / Busking

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 22:06:45 +0000

Making an honest living on the streets.

Episode 2 / The West

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 15:02:43 +0000

Songs and stories about the non-Hollywood West.

Episode 1 / An Introduction To Loafer's Glory

duncan@thelongmemory.com (The Long Memory) — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 23:21:30 +0000

Episodes were originally recorded live in Nevada City, CA. in the studios of KVMR.