Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Utah Phillips Got It Right
A Memorial Rebroadcast of an Interview
with Utah Phillips

Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who
performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two
continents for 38 years, died Friday may 23, 2008 of
congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California a small
town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for
the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson.

Born Bruce Duncan Phillips on May 15, 1935 in Cleveland,
Ohio, he was the son of labor organizers. Whether through
this early influence or an early life that was not always
tranquil or easy, by his twenties Phillips demonstrated a
lifelong concern with the living conditions of working people.
He was a proud member of the Industrial Workers of the
World, "the Wobblies," an organizational artifact of early
twentieth-century labor struggles that has seen renewed
interest and growth in membership in the last decade, not
in small part due to his efforts to popularize it.

We frequently play Utahâs songs on Building Bridges. In
tribute to a great man and wonderful artist we now offer a
rebroadcast of our interview with Utah Phillips "The Wobblies
Got It Right" which we first aired in 2005 commemorating
the 100th anniversary of the IWW.
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For more information
contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org

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