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Running on empty..... Come out to support Sequoia Forestkeeper Monday evening. Good times at the Treehuggers Ball... Neil's Cadillac The Sound Of Silence Folk Music Legend Utah Phillips Passes From Ira Hayes to Brian Rand... Free Protest Song... Live At Mama Hillybeans One Day = 720 Million... September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08
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http://www.fortmilltimes.co... Remembering Bobby Kennedy 40 years later... Yeah, there was a time when you could really believe in something. 40 years later, it's hard to remember that. 40 years later, we're in the same damn mess. Leaders with real courage were made examples of and cut down with bullets. 40 years later we have to take our own stand, and do it ourselves. This is who we look up to.... There's a great article and film from the LA Times at this link: www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-robert_kennedy,0 ,4867119.htmlstory Let us remember, so we know what we're up against. And what we have to do.
One of my musical heroes, Utah Phillips passed away last week. Utah was one of a kind. He was a folksinger, songwriter, storyteller, humorist and folk music historian. I was lucky enough to meet him at a folk club I used to hang out at, and I took a protest songs workshop and a labor songs workshop fro him at the first San Diego folk festival. Utah was a lifetime member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and in his life he was a hobo, a union organizer, a Korean war veteran, an archivist, a historian and an activist. He was the greatest interpreter of the songs of Joe Hill, and he started a homeless shelter in Nevada City, where he lived for the last twenty years of his life. Utah had unique gifts and he will missed greatly and never replaced. His songs were recorded by Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie and many others, and he won a grammy for the album he made with Ani DiFranco. His stories were wickedly funny and deadly serious at the same time. "Say brother, have you ever heard the roar of the fast express? Have you ever seen starlight on the rails?" I talked about Utah a little bit and played one of his songs at my show at Mama Hillybeans on Saturday. The video is me playing his song, Starlight On The Rails. Find out more about Utah, his life and his work here:
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