We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years [Live]

Utah Phillips | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 2, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Rounder Records
• ASIN: B0000003R5
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,072 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #61 in Music > Indie Music > Folk > Traditional Folk

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 1-SEP-1999

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Humor and sing-alongs for working people, October 10, 1999

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Julia (Iowa City, IA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years (Audio CD)

I had this record on tape for years and just about wore it out, so I was ecstatic to find it here on CD. The Wobblies' songs definitely take some shots at religion -- the sort of religion that promises "pie in the sky when you die" and advises the oppressed and exploited to wait until then to get some of it. But anyone who cares about making *this* world better needs this record.

14 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wobblies of the World Untie!, November 6, 1998

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This review is from: We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years (Audio CD)

In some ways more of a document, this album would probably shock some people into fits. "The boss", the opening track, is, well, shocking for some people.

None the less, the song listing for this is incomplete, the title song is tehre, "sheep and goats", "casey jones the union scab", "bread and roses" and "The Popular Wobbly" are all here.

It's a collection of old Wobbly songs, and a pretty good historical liner on what a wobbly was.

Personally, I find much of the album refreshing, but I'm not typical, nor do I hold with the typical person's sanctity of religious matters.

If you're devout, it's probably going to make you twitch.

If you're not, this is a take on what happens when the common man goes chaotic.

Utah Phillips, as always, is great.

3 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Joe Hill song collection, February 25, 2006

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Prometheus "diosprometheus" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years (Audio CD)

This is mostly a collection of the songs and poetry supposedly written by the legendary I.W.W. martyr Joe Hill. It is interesting more as an historical collection of the earliest songs of the I.W.W union movement than for its musical content. Much of music used in these songs where written by others. Joe Hill would change the original lyrics to promote the I.W.W. and its socialist movement, and call the so-called hated enemy names.