{"id":9465,"date":"2012-02-28T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=9465"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:38:31","slug":"the-utah-phillips-songbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/the-utah-phillips-songbook\/","title":{"rendered":"The Utah Phillips Songbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Laura Durham<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/UtahPhillips.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/UtahPhillips-SongBook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9467\" title=\"UtahPhillips-SongBook\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/UtahPhillips-SongBook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/UtahPhillips-SongBook.jpg 495w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/UtahPhillips-SongBook-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/UtahPhillips-SongBook-357x500.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a>Starlight on the Rails: And Other Songs<\/em> is  an expanded version of U. Utah Phillips\u2019 earlier songbook published  in1973. This new version (released in November 2011) contains 84 songs,  complete with chords, lyrics, and background stories written by Utah  himself.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce  Duncan \u201cUtah\u201d Phillips (1935-2008) was a folk singer, storyteller, poet  and labor organizer and often promoted his causes in his songwriting.  He attended East High School in Salt Lake City and after serving in  Korea for three years returned to Utah.<\/p>\n<p>His son Duncan released Starlight on the Rails: And Other Songs as  a labor of love meant to commemorate his father and honor his memory.  In the book\u2019s foreward, Duncan speaks of the songbook when he was  younger and how it was a tangible connection to his father\u00a0 after  Utah was prompted to leave the state. \u201cI would thumb through it from  time to time, stop at a song and do what children do best: daydream of  where he might be and what great adventures he must surely be on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This  republication is a \u201cgranddaddy of a songbook\u201d with stories from the  original book and songs from the four-CD box set. Some will love this  new collection for the stories and others will \u00a0cherish it for the  songs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook<\/em>, published by Dream Garden Press, is available at Ken Sanders Rare Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Laura Durham Starlight on the Rails: And Other Songs is an expanded version of U. Utah Phillips\u2019 earlier songbook published in1973. This new version (released in November 2011) contains 84 songs, complete with chords, lyrics, and background stories written by Utah himself. Bruce Duncan \u201cUtah\u201d Phillips (1935-2008) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/UtahPhillips-SongBook.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 06:12:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9465"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97386,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465\/revisions\/97386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}