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

Song tales about the West - my West. Diamond Mountain to old Nebrasky...oh, and some of the unknown places.

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.

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.

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

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

Here you get Mickey Katz and Yiddish parody, kids on strike, and Dan Bern's extremely moving ballad about the school shooting in Colorado.

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

What I know about the Hawaiian music. Also an interview with the prime minister of the reinstated government of Hawaii.

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.

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

A mix of labor, civil rights, and oddball cowboy songs. Don't miss the rare paean from Broke Toe Rezo himself.

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

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

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

Something of everything. My very own "NPR Talking Blues," rolling on to Studs Terkel reciting "The Scab's Lament."

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

A winding tale from "An Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight" to Walking Jim Stolz's "The Spirit Is Still on the Run."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Off again with old and new: hobo songs, poems, and lore, including Nat Willis, Josh White, and Rube Waddle (who captures the madness.)

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

From the Spanish conquest to the Farmworkers' picket line, from Julia Butterfly to the Suburban Shaman, songs to explain some kind of real California.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is all Christian music intended to restore my faith that this oft benighted faith might yet attain a useful social role.

Saco and Vanzetti to the bank job in Kutlesburg.

A collection of comedy.

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

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

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."

Spoken word, poetry, including "Upon the Wooded Hill" by my wife, Joanna Robinson, and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew'" recited by Lord Buckley.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ammon Hennacy to Aunt Molly Jackson defines folk music forever.

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

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

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

Making an honest living on the streets.

Songs and stories about the non-Hollywood West.

An Introduction to the idea of "Loafer's Glory": a jungle stew sampling-songs, poems,tales,politics (mine), and strange unknown music.