Doctor Who and Utah Phillips

The library has a bunch of Doctor Who DVDs now. I've been too busy watching them to post about this (plus I didn't want any extra competition, but I've seen all they have now). If you don't know Doctor Who, or have only seen the new series you are missing out. Every library in the City has The Key to Time stories which is an excellent place to start.

The library also has recently ordered Starlight on the Rails, the Utah Phillips songbook, which is 4 cds plus an awesome booklet, put out by AK Press. Definately check it out. Utah is perhaps the greatest radical folk musician, representing the best of the I.W.W. tradition (ie he's fairly anti-work). The library has a bunch of his other cds all worth checking out. Also while you're at it check out Don't Mourn, Organize: Songs of Labour Song Writer Joe Hill, Struggle by Woody Guthrie (or his excellent Ballads of Sacco and Vanzetti, which the library doesn't have), If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle by Pete Seeger, Partisans of Vilna: Songs of the World War Two Jewish Resistance etc. Or if you want to look beyond the library check out anything by Hazel Dickens, Coal Mining Women (A collection on Rounder featuring Hazel and many others), Harlan County USA: Songs of the Coal Miners Struggle (on Rounder, the soundtrack to the classic movie recently re-released on DVD), anything by Alistair Hulett especially Red Clydeside (which he did with Dave Swarbrick) etc