Railroading on the Great Divide
It's great to see Utah Phillips is still out there playing. This is from 2007 at the Strawberry Music Festival. I particularly enjoyed his comments about oil. Utah is a fantastic storyteller and a fabulous songwriter too. If he ever comes to your town, be there! I attended one of his shows many years ago at the Transat Club in Toronto. I think that was located in the Annex, but I can't remember exactly where now. Utah came out dressed like some old time train engineer, with his long white hair tied back and hanging down to his waste. He's a self-professed anarchist and a Wobbly too. Phillips walks out on stage as if he is walking out of another time. The past, after all, didn't go anywhere.
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What a treat it must have been to see this guy in person! He is a wonderful humorist as well as musician. Of course he got me, with his singing about the great divide and Wyoming and all.............
I highly recommend the two CDs Utah did with Ani Defranco, especially the one titled The past didn't go anywhere. It features Utah telling stories with musical accompanyment by Ms. Defranco.
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