Loafer's Glory

by Mark Ross, Utah Phillips

Overview

Utah Phillips returned to recording with Ani DiFranco's encouragement for their duet album, The Past Didn't Go Anywhere. Evidently, the collaboration inspired Phillips, because he delivered Loafer's Glory just months after The Past, which was released six years after his last album. Loafer's Glory captures him at the top of his form, running through songs and stories with glee, especially when he's subverting traditional American mores. Anyone who learned of Phillips through DiFranco couldn't ask for a better introduction to his style than Loafer's Glory. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	04/22/1997
Label:	Red House Records
UPC:	0033651010326
Rank:	173456

Tracks

1. Loafer's Glory /Nothin' to Do But Go (Poem)
2. Amtrack (Story)
3. Bessie (Story)/Look for Me in Butte
4. Suspenders (Story)
5. Moffit Tunnel (Story)/Walking Through Your Town in the Snow
6. Story (Poem)/All Used up
7. Gaffing (Story)/The Last Ride (Poem)
8. Heroes (Story)/Jesse James' Farewell Blues
9. Bodgie Lore (Story)
10. Syracuse (Story)/Fly Away
11. Gordon Vales (Story)/Shadowmaker
12. Country Music (Story)/Aces, Straights and Flushes
13. Blackie and the Duck (Story)
14. Sheep and the Goats (Poem)/He Comes Like Rain
15. Hood River Blackie (Story)/Hood River Roll on
16. Wistle in the Night (Poem)/Loafer's Glory /Disenchantment (Poem)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Utah Phillips   Primary Artist,Vocals,Spoken Word,Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
Mark Ross   Primary Artist,Primary Artist,Banjo,Guitar,Mandolin,Harmonica,Vocal Harmony,5-string Banjo,Hawaiian Guitar
Mikail Graham   Vocal Harmony
Nancy Borsdorf   Banjo,Fiddle,5-string Banjo
Jimmy Borsdorf   Banjo,Fiddle,5-string Banjo

Technical Credits

Mikail Graham   Producer,Producer
Dixie Deen   Composer
Art Tishman   Poetry,Composer
Traditional   Composer
Mark Ross   Composer,Performer
Utah Phillips   Composer,Lyricist,Liner Notes
Mother Maybelle Carter   Composer
Ramblin' Jack Elliott   Liner Notes
Kate Wolf   Composer
Public Domain   Composer
Glen Miller   Composer
Ray Hunold   Photography
Bill Quirke   Poetry,Composer
Lisa Ekstroem   Design
H.H. Knibbs   Poetry
C.E. Montague   Poetry
David Neilson   Engineer
Bruce Wheelock   Engineer