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    Singing Through the Hard Times: A Utah Phillips Celebration

    02/24/2009 | Righteous Babe 

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    All Music Guide Review

    This double-disc tribute collection to Bruce "Utah" Phillips was curated by Dan Schatz, and Jacqui and Kendall Morse and issued by the last label Phillips recorded for during his lifetime: Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe. Phillips was a prolific performer, who played benefits, strikes, organizing drives, and the like, for most of his adult life, and was an inveterate traveler in the wake of his heroes like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Cisco Houston -- he lived during a time when he was able not only to admire them but to be able to perform with them. This double-disc set collects 38 performances of songs either written by Phillips or closely associated with him by as many artists. While folk enthusiasts will be familiar with some of these names -- Gordon Bok, Tom Paxton, Rosalie Sorrels, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, Si Khan, Pete Seeger, and John McCutcheon -- others will be new to all but the most ardent fans of the genre. There is also a truly wonderful collaboration between Emmylou Harris and Ireland's Mary Black, whose reading of "Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia,," written as a collaboration between Phillips with Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, is one of the true highlights in a set that is brimming with them. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

    Singing Through the Hard Times: A Utah Phillips Celebration Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • Artist
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • Singing Through the Hard Times
  • 3:28

  • 2
  • Going Away
  • 4:58

  • 3
  • Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia
  • 3:38

  • 4
  • Dump the Bosses off Your Back
  • Kahn, Si
  • 1:42

  • 5
  • All Used Up
  • McCutcheon, John
  • 3:18

  • 6
  • Starlight on the Rails
  • Broudy, Saul
  • 4:21

  • 7
  • All About Preachers
  • Null, Lisa
  • 3:15

  • 8
  • She'll Never Be Mine
  • 3:03

  • 9
  • The Popular Wobbly
  • Penn, Larry
  • 2:46

  • 10
  • Room for the Poor
  • 5:11

  • 11
  • Reuben's Train
  • 3:14

  • 12
  • Paddy Welcome Back
  • Fast Rattler
  • 4:44

  • 13
  • Michael
  • Magpie
  • 4:56

  • 14
  • The Telling Takes Me Home
  • Trickett, Ed
  • 3:40

  • 15
  • Phoebe Snow
  • Morse, Kendall
  • 3:22

  • 16
  • If I Could Be the Rain
  • Petric, Faith
  • 2:42

  • 17
  • Queen of the Rails
  • Schatz, Dan
  • 3:13

  • 18
  • Kid's Liberation
  • Cook, Judy
  • 2:26

  • 19
  • Or Else! (One-A These Days)
  • Seeger, Pete
  • 3:24

  • 20 (2)
  • Goodnight Loving Trail
  • Bok, Gordon
  • 3:45

  • 21 (2)
  • The Soldier's Return
  • Sorrels, Rosalie
  • 3:00

  • 22 (2)
  • I Remember Loving You
  • Paxton, Tom
  • 4:22

  • 23 (2)
  • Jesse's Corrido
  • Laprelle, Elizabeth
  • 3:41

  • 24 (2)
  • Hood River, Roll On
  • Brackney, Bruce
  • 2:43

  • 25 (2)
  • Old Buddy, Goodnight
  • 3:22

  • 26 (2)
  • Hallelujah! I'm a Bum
  • Lane, Mick
  • 2:47

  • 27 (2)
  • The Internationale (Instrumental)
  • DiFranco, Ani
  • 2:49

  • 28 (2)
  • The Faded Roses of December
  • Logan, Kat
  • 3:30

  • 29 (2)
  • Daddy, What's a Train?
  • Peterson, Jay
  • 3:39

  • 30 (2)
  • Bill McCarran
  • Bierl, Ray
  • 3:22

  • 31 (2)
  • He Comes Like Rain
  • Finest Kind
  • 3:32

  • 32 (2)
  • Look for Me in Butte
  • Ross, Mark [3]
  • 3:23

  • 33 (2)
  • The Miner's Lullaby
  • Morse, Jacqui
  • 3:29

  • 34 (2)
  • Larimer Street
  • Palieri, Rik
  • 3:23

  • 35 (2)
  • Old George's Square
  • Ritchie, Jean
  • 3:09

  • 36 (2)
  • Rock Salt and Nails
  • Whiteside, Taylor
  • 3:45

  • 37 (2)
  • The Hobo's Last Ride
  • Thieme, Art
  • 2:42

  • 38 (2)
  • Singing in the Country
  • Paton, Caroline
  • 3:03

  • 39 (2)
  • Hymn Song
  • Emma's Revolution
  • 3:46

    • Credits of Singing Through the Hard Times: A Utah Phillips Celebration

    • Dan Schatz
    • Guitar, Producer, Harmony Vocals, Autoharp, Vocals
    • Marcy Marxer
    • Bass, Mandolin, Guitar, Engineer, Harmony Vocals
    • Cathy Fink
    • Banjo, Vocals, Engineer, Harmony Vocals, Guitar


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