We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years [LIVE]

Utah Phillips

Product Details

• CD-R (February 2, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 1984
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Rounder Records
• ASIN: B0000003R5
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #24,981 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Like Woody Guthrie before him, Utah Phillips is a folksinger who knows that a song can be a powerful weapon in the politics of class struggle. On this album, he performs songs from the celebrated "Little Red Songbook" of the Industrial Workers of the World union (better known as the Wobblies). First published in 1909, the IWW songbook offered parodies of Salvation Army favorites, plus other well-known tunes which were used as rallying cries in the early days of labor organization, including "Joe Hill," Guthrie's "Union Burying Ground" and Mac McClintock's "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum."

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

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

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

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.

13 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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.

2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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.