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Old 03-18-2021, 04:27 PM   #15963 (permalink)
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Utah Phillips - We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years






This might just be my new fav live album ever. Utah Phillips was a folk singer and union organizer for the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) and this album is mostly IWW union singalongs that he shares with the crowd who are either huge folk fans or diehard union folk. Simple lyrics but full of power, humanity, and humor and Utah Phillips delivers them like a man who only cares that he's lived a life of compassion and honor and also dad jokes. I honestly thought it was super short but no it's almost an hour though it's an hour of food for the soul in a time of scarcity and no meal goes quicker than the first after a short walk in moderate heat (I'm fat). "Solidarity Forever" is god tier agitationcore.





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