Editing Utah Phillips (section)

==Career==
While [[hobo|riding the rails]] and [[tramp]]ing around the west, Phillips returned to Salt Lake City, where he met [[Ammon Hennacy]] from the [[Catholic Worker Movement]].  He gave credit to Hennacy for saving him from a life of drifting to one dedicated to using his gifts and talents toward activism and public service.<ref name="folkworks.org"/> Phillips assisted him in establishing a mission [[house of hospitality]] named after the activist [[Joe Hill (activist)|Joe Hill]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Rattler |first=Fast |title=Utah Phillips on the Catholic Worker, Polarization, and Songwriting |url=http://www.olywip.org/site/page/article/2006/02/01.html |format=interview |access-date=1 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212051908/http://www.olywip.org/site/page/article/2006/02/01.html |archive-date=December 12, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Crane |first=Carolyn |title=Interview with Utah Phillips |url=http://zmagsite.zmag.org:80/JulAug2004/crane0804.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120080529/http://zmagsite.zmag.org:80/JulAug2004/crane0804.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 January 2008 |format=interview, Z Magazine |access-date=1 March 2008 }}</ref> Phillips worked at the [[Joe Hill House]] for the next eight years, then ran for the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] as a candidate of Utah's [[Peace and Freedom Party]] in 1968. He received 2,019 votes (0.5%) in an election won by [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Wallace F. Bennett]].  He also ran for president of the United States in 1976 for the Do-Nothing Party.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hawthorn |first=Tom |title=Unapologetic Wobbly folk singer found a second home in Canada |work=[[The Globe and Mail]] |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/unapologetic-wobbly-folk-singer-found-a-second-home-in-canada/article17987785/?service=print |access-date=16 June 2008 }}</ref>

He adopted the name '''U. Utah Phillips''' in keeping with the [[hobo]] tradition of adopting a moniker that included an initial and the state of origin, and in emulation of country vocalist [[T. Texas Tyler]].<ref>Direct quotation from his biography in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052902087.html The Washington Post], May 30, 2008.</ref>

Phillips met folk singer [[Rosalie Sorrels]] in the early 1950s, and remained a close friend of hers.  Sorrels started playing the songs that Phillips wrote, and through her his music began to spread. After leaving Utah in the late 1960s, he went to [[Saratoga Springs, New York]], where he was befriended by the folk community at the [[Caffè Lena]] coffee house.  He became a staple performer there for a decade, and would return throughout his career.
[[File:HayMarket100a.jpg|thumb|right|Phillips speaking at the ''[[Haymarket Martyrs' Monument]]'' at [[Forest Home Cemetery (Forest Park)|Waldheim Cemetery]], Forest Park (outside Chicago) in May 1986 during ceremonies commemorating the 100th anniversary of the [[Haymarket affair]].]]
Phillips was a member of the [[Industrial Workers of the World|Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies)]].  His views of unions and politics were shaped by his parents, especially his mother who was a labor organizer for the CIO.  But Phillips was more of a [[Christian anarchism|Christian anarchist]] and a [[Pacifism|pacifist]], so found the modern-day Wobblies to be the perfect fit for him, an iconoclast and artist.  In recent years, perhaps no single person did more to spread the [[Industrial Workers of the World|Wobbly]] gospel than Phillips, whose countless concerts were, in effect, organizing meetings for the cause of labor, unions, anarchism, pacifism, and the Wobblies.  He was a tremendous interpreter of classic Wobbly tunes including "[[Hallelujah, I'm a Bum]]," "[[The Preacher and the Slave]]," and "[[Bread and Roses]]."

An avid [[Freighthopping|trainhopper]], Phillips recorded several albums of music related to the railroads, especially the era of steam locomotives. His 1973 album, ''Good Though!'', is an example, and contains such songs as "Daddy, What's a Train?" and "Queen of the Rails" as well as what may be his most famous composition, "Moose Turd Pie"<ref>{{cite web|last=Phillips |first=Bruce |title=Moose Turd Pie |url=http://www.utahphillips.org/stuff/mooseturdpie.mp3 |format=mp3 |access-date=12 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613095956/http://www.utahphillips.org/stuff/mooseturdpie.mp3 |archive-date=June 13, 2007 }}</ref> wherein he tells a [[tall tale]] of his work as a [[gandy dancer]] repairing track in the Southwestern United States desert.

In 1991 Phillips recorded, in one take, an album of song, poetry and short stories entitled ''I've Got To Know'', inspired by his anger at the first [[Gulf War]]. The album includes "Enola Gay," his first composition written about the United States' atomic attack on [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|Hiroshima and Nagasaki]].

Phillips was a mentor to folk singer [[Kate Wolf]]. In 1998, he was the first recipient of the Kate Wolf Memorial Award from the [[World Folk Music Association]].<ref name="noble">{{Cite book|title=Number #1 : the story of the original Highwaymen|last=Noble|first=Richard E.|publisher=Outskirts Press|year=2009|isbn=9781432738099|location=Denver|pages=265|oclc=426388468}}</ref> He recorded songs and stories with [[Rosalie Sorrels]] on a CD called ''The Long Memory'' (1996), originally a college project "Worker's Doxology" for 1992 'cold-drill Magazine' Boise State University. His admirer, [[Ani DiFranco]], recorded two CDs, ''[[The Past Didn't Go Anywhere]]'' (1996) and ''[[Fellow Workers]]'' (1999), with him.<ref>{{cite news|last=Merritt |first=Stephanie |title=Life Support |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/apr/22/features.magazine47 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=April 28, 2001 }}</ref> He was nominated for a [[Grammy Award]] for his work with DiFranco. His "Green Rolling Hills" was made into a country hit by [[Emmylou Harris]], and "[[Goodnight-Loving Trail (song)|The Goodnight-Loving Trail]]" became a classic as well, being recorded by [[Ian Tyson]], [[Tom Waits]], and others.