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

Episode 85 / Pete Seeger & People's Songs

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

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

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

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

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

Episode 79 / Thunder, Lighting & Rainbows

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

Eposode 80 / No American Music

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 80 / No American Music

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

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

Episode 77 / Palm Trees and Polotics

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

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

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

Episode 73 / Broke Toe

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

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

Episode 71 / United Front

Episode 70 / Tell Me a Story

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

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

Episode 68 / Now I Really LIke This One

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

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

Episode 66 / The Fading of the old West

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"

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

Episode 64 / Maine

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

Episode 63 / Sad Old Songs

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

Episode 62 / Me Being Weird

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

Episode 61 / Folk Songs

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

episode 60 / New and Old Friends

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

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

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

Episode 57 / California

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

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

Episode 55 / Labor Gazette

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

Episode 53 / Dealer's Choice

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

Episode 53 / Down Under

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

Episode 52 / The Event That Shaped the 20th Century

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

Episode 51 / The Elegant Hobo

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

Episode 50 / Labor Today

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

Episode 49 / My West

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

Episode 48 / Christian Music

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

Saco and Vanzetti to the bank job in Kutlesburg.

Episode 46 /

A collection of comedy.

Episode 45 / More Spoken Word

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

Episode 44 / Bodie Wagner

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

Episode 43 / Live Concert

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

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

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

Episode 42 / Utah Arcana

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

Episode 40 / Spoken Word

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

Episode 39 / Off the Cuff

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

Episode 38 / Peace

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