Making Speech Free

by Utah Phillips

Overview

“These stories, polemics, and rants grew out of years of asking questions, listening closely, and trying out what I heard on the world around me. I guess that part of growing up is finally deciding what you authentically inherit, what was it that was passed along to you by our elders. Then it’s your turn to keep it in the world by passing it along.” —Utah Phillips
Captured live on May 7, 1999 as part of a Free Speech Teach-In, the inestimable “Golden Voice of the Great Southwest,” delivers 74 minutes of his trademark history, humor, song, and struggle in a signature performance. Utah’s songs and stories remind us to “Don't Mourn, Organize,” and that we can be inspired, educated, and entertained while we do it.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/21/2011
Label:	Free Dirt Records / Pm Press / Trade Root Music
UPC:	0877746006326
Rank:	93592

Tracks

1. Railroading On the Great Divide
2. "Armed With Only Our Sense of Degradation"
3. No More Reds In the Union
4. "She Favored Bank Robbers"
5. Pretty Boy Floyd
6. "Anybody Who Doesn't Need a Cop To Tell Him What To Do"
7. "the Rich Will Not Permit You To Vote Away Their Wealth"
8. I Got To Know Why
9. "All We Want is To Create Voluntary Combinations"
10. I Will Not Obey
11. Soup
12. "the Origin of the Hiring Hall and Free Speech Rights"
13. Preacher and the Slave
14. "Keep Your Hands In Your Pockets"
15. Bread and Roses
16. "the Most Dangerous Woman In America"
17. The Charge On Mother Jones
18. "a Strike is a Massive Act of Free Speech"
19. There's Power In the Union
20. This Land is Not Our Land
21. "You Cannot Even Passively Participate"

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Utah Phillips   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

William M. Rogers   Composer
Utah Phillips   Composer
Dave Van Ronk   Composer
Woody Guthrie   Composer
Joe Hill   Composer
James Oppenheim   Composer
Dick Ellington   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Roy Berkeley   Composer
Maurice Sugar   Composer