Phil Ochs once told a friend he “went to New York to become the best songwriter in the country, and then I met Dylan and I decided to be the second best.” Unfortunately, nobody remembers who finished ...

Folksinger and quintessential left-leaning activist Phil Ochs floated around the edges of Greenwich Village royalty in the ’60s, maintaining an on-again, off-again friendship/rivalry with Bob Dylan ...

The Loft Cinema has the film Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune showing tonight as part of their One Hit Wonders series, a documentary looking at the life and influence of one of the most important folk ...

Phil Ochs- Broadside Tapes From RR-3182 1. No Christmas in Kentucky 2. We Seek No Wider War 3. Green Hills 4. Ballad of John Henry Faulk 5. If I Knew 6. A.M.A. Song 7. Time Was From RR-5475 9.The ...

Despite what we’ve seen on Mad Men, the Sixties were not all about capitalistic greed. In fact, the decade witnessed the explosion of counterculture movements, social revolution, and most importantly ...

After Sonny Ochs lost her brother, she worried his music would be lost, too. Phil Ochs was 35 when he committed suicide in 1976. A mainstay in the folk music scene, in his short life, he wrote more ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

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