U. Utah Phillips - Starlight On The Rails: A Songbook
4 Compact Disk Set - 61 Songs - 281 Minutes
12 Page Booklet of Introduction and Pictures.
The Songs and Stories of U. Utah Phillips
plus Special Guest Artists:
Kate Wolf, Rosalie Sorrels, Kate Brislin & Jody Stecher, Finest Kind, Mark
Ross, Kendall Morse, and Kuddie.
Utah Phillips has shared his dream to tell the story of
his experiences for more then forty years as a folk musician, union organizer,
peace activist, and general agitator of all evil things both spoken word and
his favorite songs. It is our hope that this distinctive combination of spoken
word and music will enrich your listening and learning experience by highlighting
not only Utah's important role in folk music, but also the significance of his
topical songs today.
Here are Utah's own
words about the Audio Songbook. (audio MP3 file)
Each track is preceded by Utah giving a history of the song.
Some of the background, some of the depth that helps each song to come into
being and live.
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Disk 1
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Disk 2
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Disk 3
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Disk 4
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- The Telling Takes me Home
- Yuba City
- All Used Up
- Frisco Road
- Queen Of The Rails
- Wabash Cannonball/Tolono
- Weepy Doesn't Know
- Funeral Train
- Green Rolling Hills Of West Virgina
- Phoebe Snow
- He Comes Like Rain
- The Solder's Return
- Touch Me
- If I Could Be That Rain
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- Starlight on the Rails
- Talking N.P.R. Blues
- John D. Lee
- Dancers
- Dog Canyon
- Look For Me In Butte
- Goodnight Loving Trail
- Daddy, What's a Train?
- Fly Away
- Kid's Liberation
- Sing in the Spring
- Eddie's Song
- Shadow Maker
- She'll Never Be Mine
- Hood River, Roll On
- Stupid's Song
- Nevada Jane
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- Collie Wilkins
- Golden Mansions
- A Ragged Old Man
- Orphan Train
- The Miners Lullaby
- Wolverine 14 Talking Blues
- I Think of You
- A Clearing In The Forest
- Rock Salt & Nails
- Twist And A Pound
- Scott's Creek Bluff
- Ashes On The Sea
- The Faded Roses Of December
- Aces, Straights, & Flushes
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- Going Away
- Old Buddy, Goodnight
- Jesse's Corrido
- Pig Hollow
- Enola Gay
- Larimer Street
- Walking Through Your Town In The Snow
- Room For The Poor
- Trooper's Lament
- I Will Not Obey
- Ain't It Fine
- Killing Ground
- Judas Ram
- Yellow Ribbon
- Rice & Beans
- Hymn Song
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UTAH
PHILLIPS: Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook
The definitive, newly released 4-CD set of 61 original songs (each
accompanied by a descriptive story) sung mostly by Utah, with certain
songs by special guests Rosalie Sorrels, Kate Wolf, Kate Brislin
& Jody Stecher, Mark Ross, Kendall Morse, Kuddie, and others.
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Special: Starlight on the Rails 4 CD Audio Songbook set
is also available from
Daemon
Records
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Released by AK Press www.akpress.org
(c) 2005 U. Utah Phillips and others.
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