Phil Ochs: The Forgotten Man of the '60s Protest Era

Phil Ochs: The Forgotten Man of the '60s Protest Era
In These Times
—Phil Ochs With street protests on the rise across America, right now is a perfect time to remember folk singer and songwriter Phil Ochs. Ochs' prolific ...

John Sinclair recalls impact, importance of Freedom Rally
AnnArbor.com
... which featured, among others, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Bob Seger and Phil Ochs. Even 40 years later, Sinclair, who is seldom at a loss for words, ...

WNET American Masters to present Phil Ochs-There But for Fortune
Examiner.com
WNET: THIRTEEN's American Masters launches 26th season with acclaimed documentary Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune, premiering Monday, January 23 on WNET, ...

Good memories of Ochs
Malaysia Star
I READ Martin Vengadesan's piece on Phil Ochs (Pin-up protest boy, Music Myths And Legends, Dec 4) with interest. I once had a collection of (almost) all of ...

Judy Collins's New Book: Suicide, Alcoholism, Nude Photos, and More
Daily Beast
Rachel Sage, Phil Ochs, Paul McCartney, Patti Smith, Play it as it Lays, Pablo Casals of course. Lorendo Almieta—that's the greatest record, if you haven't ...

Christopher Hitchens on Phil Ochs

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Phil Ochs & OWS

A Call to Arms Every Liberal Can Love
TIME
If you're a liberal (as Phil Ochs said, “Get it?”) looking for safe, non-socialist ground from which to argue that America's system for overseeing Wall ...

Phil Ochs Tribute & Benefit Show for Occupy Seattle at Columbia ...
SSG Music
Phil Ochs was a folk singer/songwriter in the 1960′s and 1970′s that was very topical and political with his lyrics. Varying from topics of being a liberal, ...

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Indie Wire
... '60's Greenwich Village scene, which gave birth to a new wave of artists that included Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Joni Mitchell. ...

Phil Ochs - I'm Tired

Phil Ochs - Flower Lady (live)

Phil Ochs - I Ain't Marchin' Anymore (live)

Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village: Sounds from the Scene in 1961

In early 1961, a 19-year-old Bob Dylan, having dropped out of college at the end of his freshman year, traveled to New York City, ostensibly to visit his idol Woody Guthrie, hospitalized with Huntingdon's Disease. This 2-disc set represents the scene he discovered, the sounds he found 'Blowin' In The Wind' and the artists who were already playing the clubs and bars of the Village upon his arrival. From old timers like Pete Seeger and the Reverend Gary Davis, to the bright young stars of the new wave like Joan Baez, and Phil Ochs.

Disc 1
1. New York City (Pete Seeger)
2. Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie)
3. Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (Cisco Houston)
4. When First Unto This Country (New Lost City Ramblers)
5. Little Maggie (Barbara Dane)
6. Crawling King Snake (John Lee Hooker)
7. Howl (Allen Ginsberg)
8. Step It Up and Go (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee)
9. Pallet On The Floor (Brownie McGhee)
10. Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie (Elizabeth Cotten)
11. Darling Corey (The Weavers)
12. The Bannana Boat Song (the Tarriars)
13. Pretty Polly (Erik Darling)
14. No More Cane On The Brazos (Odetta)
15. Red Wing (Oscar Brand)
16. Jack of Diamonds (Brother John Sellers)
17. Barbara Allen (Ed Mcurdy)
18. Duncan and Brady (Dave Van Ronk)
19. Rio Grande (The Focscle Singers)
20. Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (Paul Clayton)
21. The Steve Allen Show (Lenny Bruce)
22. The Flight Of The Bumble Bee (Jose Feliciano)
23. I Ain't Marching Anymore (Phil Ochs)
24. Turn, Turn, Turn (Judy Collins)
25. The Sound of Silence (Art Garfunkel)

Disc 2
1. New York City (Lead Belly)
2. Cocaine (Ramblin Jack Elliott)
3. Buffalo Boy (Theodore Bickel)
4. The Parting Glass (Clancy Brothers)
5. State Of The Nation (Kenneth Patchen)
6. Fixin' To Die (Bukka White)
7. Baby Please Don't Go (Big Joe Williams)
8. You Will Need Me (Lonnie Johnson)
9. The Wagoner's Lad (Kossoy Sisters)
10. Go' Way from My Window (John Jacob Niles)
11. Driving Wheel (Rosevelt Sykes)
12. On The Road (Jack Kerouac)
13. Silver Dagger (Joan Baez)
14. A Wayfaring Stranger (Bob Gibson)
15. Nottamun Town (Jean Ritchie)
16. Death Don't Have No Mercy (Reverend Gary Davis)
17. In My Time Of Dying (Josh White)
18. Uncloudy Day (Staple Singers)
19. Rocks and Gravel (Harry Belafonte)
20. Mojo Hand (Lightnin Hopkins)
21. New York Girls (Kingston Trio)
22. Little Wheel Spin And Spin (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
23. Ramblin' Boy (Tom Paxton)
24. Roll On Buddy (The Greenbriar Boys)
25. If I Had A Hammer (Peter Paul and Mary)

Phil Ochs - Kansas City Bomber

Mississippi still burning

Mississippi still burning
The Student Printz
In 1964, Phil Ochs wrote a song he called "Here's to the State of Mississippi." In it, he lamented the presence of the Klan and the refusal of the people of ...

Ochs For Folks
Frost Magazine
by Roy Phillips Phil Ochs was a singer / songwriter in the 60s categorized as `folk' or 'protest' – a contemporary and friend of Bob Dylan. ...

Morello electric on 'Rebel Songs'
Toronto Sun
I didn't want to do a watered down Audioslave as a solo thing, I was really getting deeply into the folk music of the early Dylan, Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie, ...

New Coen Brothers Movie About '60s Folk Legend Gets Financing, Is Titled ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’
Indie Wire
... Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s that give birth a new wave of artists that included Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Joni Mitchell. ...

Pop Montreal: the full lineup
Hour.ca
Join us for the alternately inspiring and tragic story Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune. Other notable screenings include the Canadian premiere of ...

Tom Morello enlists his wife for Phil Ochs homage on the cover of his latest record
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“The cover is an homage to a Phil Ochs' live record, Gunfight at Carnegie Hall,” explains Morello. “The moll on the cover is actually my wife. She was like, 'I'm not ...

Phil Ochs - In the Heat of the Summer

Phil Ochs - The Men Behind the Guns

Phil Ochs in the News

In the beginning, it was the Hootenanny
Philadelphia Inquirer
Name acts in 1965 included Phil Ochs, Mississippi John Hurt, Judy Collins, Tom Rush, and Tom Paxton. That show was the last in Paoli as organizers realized ...

What to see and do at the Philadelphia Folk Festival
Philadelphia Daily News
Tomorrow, the daytime activities start at 11 am and are in high gear an hour later with the "Songs of Phil Ochs" workshop, led by his sister Sonny, ...

Judy Collins to perform in Red Bank
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Under the guidance of producer Mark Abramson, who had worked on Phil Ochs' 1966 live album, even the familiar became strange. Bob Dylan's “Just Like Tom ...

Steven Schub as Phil Ochs in The Chicago 8

Phil Ochs in the News

Raging Against the Corporate Media Machine
The Nation
... lead guitarist of Rage Against the Machine, protest-musician and activist, painstakingly parody his newest album cover after Phil Ochs's “Gunfight at ...

Local stars shine at 50th annual folkfest
Montgomery Newspapers
Shay and I agree that John Francis will do very well at the Phil Ochs workshop, which deals with topical songs. John Flynn will be on that panel too. ...

Sonny Ochs To Speak At Avon Theatre
Patch.com
The sister of folksinger Phil Ochs will appear at a screening of a documentary about the late performer's life. On Wednesday, August 17, at 7:30 pm the Avon ...

High-riding hoppers
Bangalore Mirror
“One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to people than a thousand rallies,” said folk singer Phil Ochs decades ago. ...

Don't Shut 'Em Down: An Interview with Flogging Molly
PopMatters
... of hope and humor amidst the darkest themes, drawing upon the tradition of songwriters such as Phil Ochs, Johnny Cash, Billy Bragg, and Joe Strummer. ...

Phil Ochs - Danny Boy

Phil Ochs' cover of Conway Twitty's "Danny Boy" at the Troubadour Nightclub in Los Angeles, CA on February 1, 1970.

Phil Ochs in the News: Legends of Folk

Video: 'Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune' eyes singer's rise, fall
Evansville Courier & Press
By BRUCE DANCIS / Scripps Howard News Service Phil Ochs didn't just chronicle the civil-rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s in song, he was part of ...

New CDs feature comedy, rock and jazz
Albany Times Union
Phil Ochs' legendary near-hit "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" was inspired in part by the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese, who was stabbed to death ...

Musical Stars Shine on PBS in August
Technorati
... Don McLean, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, The Mamas and the Papas, Jim Kweskin Jug Band, New Lost City Ramblers, Mississippi John Hurt, and Tim Hardin. ...

Rant 'N' Roll: Phil Ochs and Victor Jara
Aquarian Weekly
The other night I saw the Phil Ochs documentary, There But For Fortune, and can't stop thinking about a story Pete Seeger told of Chilean folksinger Victor ...

A young Bob Dylan performs 'Blowin' in the Wind' on 'Legends of Folk.'
New York Daily News
Phil Ochs didn't write "I Ain't A Marchin' Any More" to promote pledge drives. He wrote it to say war isn't the answer, a discussion as relevant today as it ...

Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune
Fairfield County Online
Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune“A stimulating reflection on the American countercultural protest movement examined through the prism of one of its most ...

Phil Ochs Lives! New Film, “There But For Fortune”
Veterans News Now
I believe Phil Ochs to be the most critical artist of the civil rights and peace movement. He was a wounded man who produced a body of work that needs to be ...

Phil Ochs - I Want You, I Need You, I Love You

Phil Ochs' cover of Elvis Presley's "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" at the Troubadour Nightclub in Los Angeles, CA on February 1, 1970.

Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune Documentary News

'60s folkie Phil Ochs sings again in documentary
Kansas City Star
By BRUCE DANCIS Phil Ochs didn't just chronicle the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s in song, he was part of them. Like Bob Dylan, his friend and idol, Ochs became a spokesman for young people who were both energized by the election of ...

Phil Ochs in Vancouver: an interview with Steve Rodgman
Alienated in Vancouver
I was fortunate to see him live at The Egress, a club now long gone, on Beatty St. in August, 1973...From what I can remember, he was everything I had hoped for. Made some great intros to his songs with comments in between. Funny at times. Good sense of humour. Sang fantastically. Every song got a huge reaction.

Phil Ochs - Maybe Baby (Live 1970)

Phil Ochs' cover of Buddy Holly's "Maybe Baby" recorded live at the Troubadour Nightclub in Los Angeles, CA on February 1, 1970.