Ochs, Phil (1940-1976)
A contemporary of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Phil Ochs achieved modest success as a singer/songwriter during the mid-1960s. After receiving a standing ovation at the Newport Folk ...
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Critical Essay by Gordon Friesen
Bob Dylan is 21, Phil Ochs 22, Mark Spoelstra 23, Len Chandler and Tom Paxton 25, and Peter LaFarge is the oldest of the bunch at 32…. Besides their youth they...
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Critical Essay by Peter Knobler
The girl on the ticket line wanted "two tickets to the Bob Dylan concert." In fact the evening was a "Concert Tribute to Phil Ochs," and th...
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Critical Essay by John Berendt
Ochs was known as the troubadour of the New Left. He was the most radically committed performer of the Sixties, several steps beyond Jane Fonda and about on a par with ...
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Critical Essay by Karl Dallas
If Bob Dylan is the king of protest—and some might say he's already abdicated—Phil Ochs … is the president.
Still in his mid twenties, he ...
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Critical Essay by Josh Dunson
[Phil Ochs] has been especially effective in his talking blues, where his wonderful sense of humor has forced hostile audiences to laugh and even question their beliefs ...
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Critical Essay by Gordon Friesan
Phil Ochs is one of those songwriter-performers who continues to hit where it hurts; who keeps trying for a clean knockout. It is true he writes "Changes,�...
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Critical Essay by Josh Dunson
Phil's early songs, with humor, compassion, and anger, cut through conservative and liberal excuses for inaction. Often the songs would follow one after the other...
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The days immediately following Thanksgiving are supposed to be a frenzy of shopping, but nobody seems to have told the record labels, who on this Tuesday seem to have left the shelves a little bar...
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Ochs, Phil (1940-1976)
Critical Essay by Gordon Friesen
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