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Thread #109845   Message #2320250
Posted By: Big Mick
19-Apr-08 - 04:24 PM
Thread Name: Utah Phillips Coyote
Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Coyote
OK, I spoke to Utah earlier this afternoon. He remembers the song very well. It is one he wrote after an incident occurred back in the 90's. There were a group of men from a small place in Mexico by the name of Los Conos (sp?). Apparently the village was named for the fact that it had many cone shaped silos. But when NAFTA killed the grain business in Mexico, these folks had no work. So a bunch of the young and older men paid a Coyote to transport them to job in the US so's they could feed their families. The Coyote put them in a grain car, locked it, and sent the thing out on the rails. Obviously that car went many places, with many stops, and by the time it hit Denison, IA, USA, the men were all dead. A horrible tragedy. It touched Utah and he wrote and performed that song a number of times. He did not record it.

Justin K. Rivers



Please contact me using the PM feature (you will have to join Mudcat to do that), or EMAIL ME, or come back on the thread and give me a way to contact you. Utah has made an offer that will help you get what you are after that I think you will like.

All the best,

Mick