Folk singer Utah Phillips dies in California

[Drunken Irishman]

:(

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9370911?source=rss

[Bennyboy]

1. RIP Utah....A life well lived.

I got to know him a little bit over the last couple of years. He lived in Grass Valley and so did I for a while. Great person.

[Inchworm]

2. A few tunes.. he was a good man

:wave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5YoLjYD8QE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O93YpTYCWRk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOscaTfHLFs

:salute:

[The Magistrate]

3. That Is A Shame, Sir: He Is One Of The Greats....

"I knew it was time to clear out when the Unitarians came around and burnt a question mark on my lawn."

[Inchworm]

4. Just wanted to say

There are at least 15 ppls out there as fun as the good Utah who were inspired.

*sigh*

I love John Prine

:)

[otherlander]

5. :(

:patriot:

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. My sig is something he once said

No, not the Russian bit.



:patriot:

[hippywife]

7. So long, Bruce.

:cry:






Bruce “Utah” Phillips Biography
Songwriter, Storyteller, Humorist, Philosopher, 1935–2008

“Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that. That’s why I sing these songs. That’s why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no fruit!”

[Inchworm]

8. *kiss*

I wish everyone would post a why :)

:loveya:

[greendog]

9. World Turned Upside Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z9OfORxcYY&feature=related

RIP Utah :(

[hippywife]

10. Obituary

http://www.utahphillips.org/

[harmonicon]

11. Man, that sucks

I'd heard that it was coming though....

Maybe you should post this in LBN or GD, so that it can get recs and go on the greatest page. There's so much bitching going on about the politics in this country, but it's a country that isn't worth governing or being a part of without our culture - remind people what it is we even bother having a government for.