Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this
country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives
our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events
that clarifies our vision, not of where we're going, but where
we want to go." - U. Utah Phillips
The Long Memory
PO BOX 711668
SLC, UT. 84171
Loafer's Glory
"The hobo jungle of the mind"
Loafer's Glory was originally broadcast
from KVMR in Nevada City, Ca. These
broadcasts are a collage of rants,
poetry, tales, and reminiscences mixed
in 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.
Contact
duncan@thelongmemory.com
LINKS
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to the shows
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Our hope is that The Long Memory Project will be the
building block towards establishing a permanent,
non-profit archive for the works of Bruce "Utah" Phillips
that will be easily accessible to the public. Some of the
projects currently underway are the republication of
Utah's original song book "Starlight On The Rails",
making the one hundred episodes of "Loafer's Glory"
available for download and rebroadcast, and a tribute
CD from the artisans and organizers influenced by Utah
from the state that Bruce always considered home, Utah.
All the proceeds from these ongoing projects as well as
donations will be used for this sole purpose. A portion
will also go towards the day to day operations of the
Hospitality House A Community Shelter fo the Homeless.
ORIGINAL
The new Utah Phillips
Starlight on the Rails
and Other Songs
songbook now
available.
The new 246 page
songbook
contains eighty
four songs as well
as the stories, in
Utah's own words,
that accompany
most of the songs.
The book also
includes a
collection of
thirty or so
photographs of
Uath over the
years.
For the better part of fourty years Utah
Phillips tramped the country, singing folk
songs and telling stories. I know from
personal experience that from coast to coast
there are folks with thier own stories about
Bruce "Utah " Phillips. Now it's your turn to do
the story telling. Send in or e-mail me your
stories and I'll do my best to add them to
collection.
I met Bruce Phillips in November of 1969.
At the time I was the kitchen boy, lighting
and sound man, and permanent third act
on the bill at the Gaslight Cafe in
Greenwich Village. All for 5 bucks a night
and the privilege of sleeping on the Persian
rug in the lobby when I couldn't find a place
to sleep for the night when the bars closed.
He had come in to do a guest set, having
just left Salt Lake City after having been
blacklisted after running for US Senate on
the Peace & Freedom Party ticket as an
anti-war candidate.
Mark Ross ("Smokestack")
Feb. 28. 2013 Eugene, Oregon
Send stories to;
The Long Memory
P. O. Box 711668
SLC, UT. 84171
Or you can send us an e-mail
duncan@thelongmemory.com
We will start this new collectin off with a
tale from one of Utah's oldest friends.
He got 6000 votes
and split the
Democratic vote
so badly that he
couldn't get his job
back as a state
archivist (Imagine
Utah Phillips,
anarchist, wobbly
organizer, and
radical songwriter,
working for the
state!).
He was a larger-than-life vision out of the
Old West; leather hat and vest, cowboy
boots, gold watch chain, and mustache
and mutton chop whiskers. We
introduced ourselves and I found out
what he needed on stage to do a set, and
then started to argue about the relative
merits of Guild and Martin guitars.
Read more.
Mark Ross "Smoke Stack"