Phil Ochs

From The Beach Boys & Randy Newman to Fleet Foxes & Skrillex: A Conversation With Van Dyke Parks, Plus Calling JB Baretsky's Bluff

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Brian Wilson, Sally Parks, Phil Ochs, Terry Melcher, Inara George, The Beach Boys, George Martin, Silverchair, Fleet Foxes, Colonel Parker, Van Dyke Parks, The Byrds, Les Paul, The Honeymooners, Ed Ruscha, George Clinton, Ry Cooder, Lenny Waronker, Elvis Presley, Selma Riots, Stanley Dorfman, Joanna Newsom, Skrillex, Tommy Manicotti, Charles Ray, Randy Newman, Rufus Wainwright, Art Spiegelman, JB Baretsky, Jackie Gleason, James Taylor, Tonkin, Video, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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15 Things You Should Probably Know About Van Dyke Parks

Michael Sigman | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Brian Wilson, The Mothers of Invention, Phil Ochs, David Crosby, Terry Gross, Art Spiegelman, Ed Ruscha, The Beach Boys, Rufus Wainwright, The Byrds, Albert Einstein, Entertainment News
Michael Sigman

This "sui generis" Southern gentleman, raconteur and erstwhile child actor defies linear explication. Here are 15 semi-random items for the not-yet initiated.

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Scars On 45's New Video and Download, Plus Chatting with Vanessa Carlton, Dan Bern and David Bromberg

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Peter Gabriel, Mavis Staples, Ron Fair, Phil Ochs, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, Amy Helm, Levon Helm, Steely Dan, Woody Guthrie, Counting Crows, David Bromberg, Dan Bern, Tim O'Brien, Cunliffe Merriwether, Adam Duritz, My Morning Jacket, Larry Campbell, Elvis Costello, Stevie Nicks, Ted Leone, Vince Gill, George Harrison, Joe Radcliffe, Dr. John, The McGarrigle Sisters, Patrick Hallahan, Stephen Hawkings, Vanessa Carlton, Steve Osborne, Paul Siebel, Miley Cyrus, Quitting Science, Los Lobos, Merle Haggard, Widespread Panic, John Hiatt, Byron Isaacs, Link Wray, Carly Simon, Ahmet Ertegun, Gary Nicholson, Willie Nelson, Get HIm to the Greek, A Brief History of Time, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Richard Adams, Mark Moss, Bob Dylan, John Hill, Gary White, Keb' Mo', Stephen Jenkins, Glenn Patscha, Dick Gregory, Jay Unger, Jimmy Iovine, Peter Ecklund, George Jones, Jerry Scheff, The Butcher Brothers, Phoebe Snow, Watership Down, Bruce Springsteen, Electar, Ollabelle, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Here's the latest video by the Chop Shop Records' act Scars On 45, the title track to their Give Me Something EP.

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The Political Bob Dylan

Peter Dreier | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Pete Seeger, The Times They Are a-Changin, Folk Music, Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Protest Music, Blowin in the Wind, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Bob Dylan's off-and-on engagement with politics is intriguing. But his peace and justice songs have had a life of their own.

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The Music and Its Message: Songs of Protest and Cultural Identity

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune, Phil Ochs, One Voice, King Kamehameha III, Christopher Hitchens, Betty Comden, Pete Seeger, San Francisco Asian America International Film Festival, Kumu Hulas, Sean Penn, Herbert Mahelona, Joan Baez, Stephen Sondheim, Hawaiian Language, Frederick Loewe, Irving Berlin, Jule Styne, Yiddish Book Center, Peter Yarrow, Fred Ebb, John Kander, Bob Dylan, Lisette Marie Flanary, Hallelujah Baby!, Cole Porter, Punana Leo, Glee Club, Tom Hayden, Ka Hinano O Puna, Aaron Lansky, Richard Rodgers, Victor Jara, Arts News
George Heymont

2011-03-22-ochs.jpg Two thrilling new musical documentaries place great emphasis on the importance of a song's lyrics while paying homage to their creators.

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Phil Ochs, Tom Paine, And There But for Fortune

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harvey Kaye, Thomas Paine, Phil Ochs, Greenwich Village Rockaway, Dave Van Ronk, Pete Seeger, American Crisis, Sean Penn, Bob Dylan, Common Sense, Joan Baez, Salvador Allende, Kenneth Bowser, John Adams, Victor Jara, Peter Yarrow, Politics News
Bruce E. Levine

The afterlife of the man once called "Tom Paine with a guitar" has, for the last 30 years, paralleled that of Tom Paine himself. Both Ochs and Paine were discarded by their respective mainstream worlds.

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HuffPost Review: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Phil Ochs, Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune Movie Review, Michael Ochs, Christopher Hitchens, Tom Hayden, Sean Penn, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Bowser's documentary shows Ochs to be driven by his political beliefs, shattered by the deaths of John F. Kennedy and disillusioned by the ineffectiveness of protest against the Vietnam War.

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MOVIE REVIEW: 'Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune'

Jonah Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Phil Ochs, 1960's, NY Culture, The Turbulent 60s, Documentary, Greenwich Village, Folk Music, Folk Singer Phil Ochs, Film, Hippies, Michael Ochs, New York News
Jonah Green

"Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune", a new documentary about the late folk singer Phil Ochs, had its New York premiere on Wednesday. Friends and famil...

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Phil Ochs Lives!

Michael Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Documentary, Phil Ochs, Entertainment News
Michael Simmons

The late Phil Ochs, one of the greatest singer/songwriters of the 1960s in a rarified perch with Dylan, Joni and Cohen, wasn't a household name but he was big enough to have affected a lot of people.

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There But For (a $5.4 Billion) Fortune

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newark Star-Ledger, Bill Clinton, Editorial Cartoonists, Prince Valiant, Phil Ochs, Newspaper Layoffs, Montclair Times, Donald Trump, New York Times, Donald Newhouse, Vince Lombardi, Justin Bieber, Rich Get Richer, Media News
Dave Astor

Here's the tale of a New Jersey newspaper that lost a reader after publishing the net worth of a man so filthy rich he needs a shoe stretcher for his wallet.

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It's Always the Old to Lead Us to the War/It's Always the Young to Fall

Freddie Gershon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Casualties of War, 1968 Democratic National Convention, July 4, Phil Ochs, Anti-War Songs, Protest, Arts News
Freddie Gershon

I think of Phil Ochs on July 4. Phil was a cult contemporary of Bob Dylan from the 60s and 70s. And Phil wrote a song called "Another Country."

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Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology): A Playlist For Earth Day

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, The Turtles, Peter Gabriel, Imogen Heap, Phil Ochs, The Eagles, Steel Pulse, The Beach Boys, Neil Young, Dave Matthews Band, Spirit, Julian Lennon, Talking Heads, The Pixies, Midnight Oil, Soundgarden, The Isley Brothers, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, R.E.M., Marvin Gaye, Entertainment News
David Wild

Here's an Earth Day playlist of songs about taking better care of Planet Earth, better care of one another and better care of ourselves.

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Rekers, Jindal and the Impressive Hypocrisy of the Far Right

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: rentboy.com, Europe, Family Research Council, President Obama, Phil Ochs, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Gulf of Mexico, Liberal, Tea Partiers, Oil Spill, Far Right, Louisiana National Guard, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, Tea Party, George Rekers, Chutzpah, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Bobby Jindal and George Rekers are not alone, but exemplify a willful blindness to the real world consequences of ideological extremism that has become something of the sina qua non of the far right.

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An Interview With Buffy Sainte-Marie, Plus Train and Digital 45 Updates

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chaka Khan, Columbia Records, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Scorr Underwood, The Doobie Brothers, Rickie Lee Jones, Seals & Crofts, Air America, Vanguard Records, Commander John Herrington, The Charlatans, Cash for Clunkers, Sesame Street, Woodstock, Vietnam War, The Cradleboard Teaching Project, Chumbawamba, Van Morrison, Phil Ochs, Third Eye Blind, Jimmy Stafford, Georgia Satellites, Eric Anderson, Rhino Entertainment, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Digital 45, Donovan, Marc Cohn, Judy Collins, Folk, First Nations, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Train, Neil Diamond, Martin Terefe, Kellogg Foundation, Elvis Presley, Npr, Itunes, Rhino Records, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, Pat Monahan, Nasa, Alannah Myles, Anita Baker, The Marcels, President Obama, The Highwaymen, Grateful Dead, Native Americans, Genesis, Keith Olbermann, Fred Neil, Glen Campbell, Harry Chapin, Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Joe Cocker, Foghat, Ford Foundation, Pacifica, Gordon Lightfoot, Entertainment News, Jennifer Warnes, Morrissey, Bobby Bare, Tommy James and the Shondells, Randy Travis, Jon Stewart, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

This being Woodstock Week, it seemed a perfect time to catch-up with this artist whose music influenced many of those who appeared at the culture-changing event.

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