| Title |
Starlight on the Rails and other songs by U. Utah Phillips, the golden voice of the great Southwest |
| Alternative Title |
The golden voice of the great Southwest |
| Creator |
Phillips, Utah |
| Contributor |
Goldstein, Kenneth S., 1927-1995; Broudy, Saul Frederick; Hill, Joe, 1879-1915 |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1973 |
| Date Digital |
2013 |
| Temporal Coverage |
American Folk Music Revival 1950-1970 |
| Description |
Scan of a printed songbook with hand drawn pen and ink illustrations, with foreword by folklorist Kenneth S. Goldstein. The songbook includes 43 songs, most of them written by Utah Phillips in folklore style. Each song has music score, lyrics, and a story preceding it, providing background information relating to the song. As a collection, these songs portray and honor the life of ordinary working class people in the west, mainly around Utah area. Many of the songs carry strong political messages from the Labor Movement in the 1930s |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City (Utah) |
| Subject |
Phillips, Utah--Songs and music; Working class--Songs and music; Folk music |
| Keywords |
Folk music; Labor songs; Working class; Mines; Miners; Cowboys, Railroad workers; Craftsmen; Loggers; Folklore; History; Utah |
| Table of Contents |
1. The Telling Takes Me Home; 2. Ride Away; 3. Hey Boys Let It Ring; 4. Paddy Welcome Back; 5. Goodnight Loving Trail; 6. Johnny Thurmond; 7. Scofield Mine Disaster; 8. Miners Lullaby; 9. Little Dug Out Soddy On the Plains; 10. Arvada; 11. Nothing Gets Old Anymore; 12. Top Fallers Song; 13. All About Preachers; 14. Jesse James Farewell Blues; 15. The Pride of Northern Mexico; 16. She'll Never Be Mine; 17. Jungle Sermon; 18. Dump The Bosses Off Your Back; 19. Wobbly DeHorn Crew; 20. Nevada Jane; 21. The Two Bums; 22. Pie In the Sky; 23. Power in the Union; 24. Daddy What's a Train; 25. Starlight on the Rails; 26. Phoebe Snow; 27. Queen of the Rails; 28. No Round Trip Ticket; 29. Green Rolling Hills; 30. Union Bingo; 31. Relocation Blues; 32. Frisco Road; 33. If I had a List; 34. Larimer Street; 35. Tom Horn; 36. The Big Diamond Mine; 37. John D. Lee; 38. Jesse's Corrido; 39. If I could be the Rain; 40. I Think of You; 41. Rocksalt & Nails; 42. Goin' Away; 43. Hymn Songs |
| Abstract |
Folk Musician Utah Phillips' songs were written about and for the working class people in the west, among them were miners, cowboys, railroad workers; craftsmen and loggers. These songs demonstrate Phillips' political stands and express his personal emotions |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
Books |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
10 MB |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook Daemon Records 2005. Box set 4 CDs |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6cv52mb |
| Setname |
uu_utfolklore |
| ID |
716372 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cv52mb |
