I had the pleasure of having Utah Phillips stay at our house at a guest for 3 days and provide transportation to and from our folk music festival.    A few observations.

What you see is what you get.    Utah and I disagree politically on just about everything.   However, we never got into an argument and he showed great respect for everyones opinion.   He spent a lot of time on the phone calling people and checking votes, and elections, and following up on causes.    No phonyness about him whatsoever.

He mentioned that he would not do public tv as he didn't want to support that.   Probably hurt his carreer.   The funny story is that the planes went on strike right before our festival and he had no other way of getting to NJ.   He had never crossed a picket line before, but got permission for the local unions.   At the airports he joined each picket line before getting on the flight.   He did a whole set of union songs on Saturday night as pennance.

A utah line-   A guy came up to me and put a gun to my head and said who are you going to vote for- Bush or Kerry?   I thought about it for a few seconds and said shoot me.