| Title |
Urban Pioneers interview with Bruce Utah Phillips, November 30, 2004. (Cassette Tape 1, Side A) |
| Alternative Title |
Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Bruce Utah Phillips, (Part 1) |
| Links to Media |
https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9663 |
| Creator |
Phillips, Utah; Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013 |
| Contributor |
Bateman, Jennifer; Green, Laura Marcus |
| Publisher |
University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-11-30 |
| Date Digital |
2013-06-21 |
| Temporal Coverage |
November 30, 2004 |
| Description |
Recording of Part 1 of an interview by Polly Stewart with Bruce "Utah" Phillips at Nevada City, California. Utah Phillips was a participant in the Utah folk music scene of the 1960s. Transcript by Polly Stewart, copy-edited by Laura R. Marcus [now Green]. One of the interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott Bateman conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project, 2004-2011 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City (Utah) |
| Subject |
Phillips, Utah--Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah |
| Keywords |
Utah Phillips; Bruce Phillips; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews |
| Table of Contents |
1. Bruce Polly Stewart explains project/Bruce Phillips talks about his entrée into music through the ukulele; 2. Working at Yosemite, learning to play guitar, learning folk songs, starting to write his own songs/meeting Father Baxter Liebler of St. Christopher's Mission (Bluff, Utah); 3. Military service in Korea, new musical growth/break-up of marriage; 4. Roaming the country/becoming part of the Salt Lake City folk music scene/talking about song-writing technique (story of his song, "Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia"; 5. Time spent with Rosalie Sorrels-who recorded his songs/remarriage and fatherhood/talking about songs "Rock Salt and Nails" and "Faded Roses"; 6. Talking about musical and poetic influences; 7. Talking about songs, "The Scofield Mine Disaster" and "Jesse's Corrido"/talking about involvement with, impact of Ammon Hannecy and Joe Hill House, being a pacifist and an anarchist; 8. Talking about picking up historical content for songs from Earl M. Lyman, through work wrapping packages in a warehouse; 9. Teaching "ear music" technique of playing guitar/"teaching without teaching" history through music; 10. Developing consciousness as folk singer/friendship with folklorist Kenny Goldstein/beginning of recording and music publishing career; 11. Getting into bluegrass/The Utah Valley Boys, Tut Taylor/songs getting into circulation; 12. Running for the U.S. Senate on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket; 13. Factors in Phillips's departure from Utah/beginning of new trade as a folk singer and story teller; 14. Reflections on the Urban Folk Music Revival/genuine folk vs. commercial folk |
| Type |
Sound |
| Genre |
Sound recordings |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
47 minutes, 21 seconds |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Is Part of |
The 30 interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6gb2nx1 |
| Setname |
uu_utfolklore |
| ID |
716441 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gb2nx1 |
