Anarchist, musician, legend

north america / mexico | culture | non-anarchist press Saturday April 09, 2005 04:56 by Christian Kiefer

Utah Phillips is a local hero of political activism and folk music. Just don’t call him the last of the radicals!

In the folk-music scene, Phillips is, quite literally, a legend, his booming voice and strumming acoustic guitar immediately recognizable. It is through his music, and the humorously ranting stories he tells in between the songs, that his position as a radical becomes clear. This is not to say that Phillips is exclusively a political singer--in fact, he dislikes that term. Instead, his is a politics focused on people, one interested in telling stories about the downtrodden, the disenfranchised, the socially and politically forgotten

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