Editing Utah Phillips (section)

{{Short description|American labor organizer, folk singer, and poet (1935–2008)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name                = Utah Phillips
| image               = File:Utah Phillips 1579a 700 NWilson.jpg
| caption             = Utah Phillips, 2006
| background          = solo_singer
| birth_name          = Bruce Duncan Phillips
| alias               = 
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|1935|05|15}}
| birth_place         = [[Cleveland]], Ohio
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|2008|05|23|1935|05|15}}
| death_place         = [[Nevada City, California]]
| origin              = 
| instrument          = 
| genre               = [[Folk music]]
| occupation          = Songwriter, performer, [[raconteur]]
| years_active        = 
| label               = 
| associated_acts     = 
| website             = [http://thelongmemory.com/ thelongmemory.com]
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}}
'''Bruce Duncan''' "'''Utah'''" '''Phillips''' (May 15, 1935&nbsp;– May 23, 2008)<ref name="kvmr">[http://www.kvmr.org/utah_letter.html "Utah Phillips Has Left the Stage"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821124726/http://www.kvmr.org/utah_letter.html |date=August 21, 2008 }}, KVMR, Nevada City, California, May 24, 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2008.</ref> was an American labor organizer, [[folk singer]], storyteller and poet. He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of [[direct action]], self-identifying as an [[Anarchism|anarchist]].<ref name="Crane">{{cite web |url= http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041025/crane|title= Voting For the First Time|access-date=27 December 2007 |quote=I'm an anarchist and I've been an anarchist many, many years.}}</ref> He often promoted the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] in his music, actions, and words.