Tagged: singingthroughthehardtimes

Folk singer Bruce "Utah" Phillips identified himself as an anarchist, but that didn't stop him from making a 1968 bid for the U.S. Senate in Utah. He lost, but he got plenty of his ideas across through his music, fed by his years as a rail rider, soldier in the Korean War and unflinching supporter and member of the Industrial Workers of the World labor union (aka "the Wobblies"). Phillips died last year before he could hear the finished product of a compilation that was released recently, Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips [...]

• Magpie, Dan Schatz, Emma's Revolution, Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer & Friends - Singing Through The Hard Times