Duncan Phillips

Jim Ringer would describe traveling with my father, Kate Wolf and the rest of the bunch as a "Traveling Folk Festival." They would roll into a town, set up shop, tell stories and sing songs, sometimes individually, sometimes as a group, but it was always an event. That best describes what it is that I do. I travel from coast to coast with an everchanging cast of friends, new and old, swapping songs and telling stories.

As the son of Bruce, "Utah" Phillips, Duncan Phillips began traveling on the road with his father in the winter of 2000. Utah referred to Duncan as his "road manager", but Duncan jokes that everyone knows his father couldn't be managed.
Bruce always had the dream of playing on stage together with his son, but as a kid, Duncan could never reconcile that, in learning to play the guitar, he would be learning one of the very things that kept him separated from his father for so many years.

Duncan performed on stage just shortly after his dad's death in 2008. Along with Utah's old road-worn Guild guitar, Duncan inherited the songs and stories of the people and places that his father wrote about over his forty plus years of wandering the country.
In Duncan's own words: "Well, even though he may be gone, every time I'm on the stage, he is there with me and this is my story, so far...
...oh yeah, I do live in Utah."