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unusual facts about Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune



Alice Stuart

Her singing, songwriting, and guitar playing secured her invitations to tour nationally and internationally with Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Doc Watson, Jerry Ricks, Phil Ochs, and Joan Baez, in addition to television appearances on The Dick Cavett Show and the Old Grey Whistle Test.

Anne Hills

In 1998, she contributed renditions to tribute albums for Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs.

Avalanche Records Alternative Christmas

"Christmas in Kirkcaldy" is a cover of No Christmas in Kentucky by Phil Ochs.

Folk beat n. 1

The record is, as the title suggests, a folk album, intended to adapt the genre within a contemporary Italian context parallel to the music of Phil Ochs or Bob Dylan.

Happy Traum

Traum first appeared on record at a historic session in late 1962 when a group of young folk musicians, including Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Peter LaFarge and The Freedom Singers, gathered in the studio at Folkways Records to record an album called Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1.

Judy Henske

She appears in the 2011 documentary film Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune, which chronicles the life and career of folksinger Phil Ochs, with whom she was part of the early sixties' Greenwich Village folk music scene.

Kansas City Bomber

The songwriter Phil Ochs wrote a song with the same title that was intended as title song for the film, but not used.

Little Light

This acoustic collection consists of eight original songs along with cover versions of: Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time; Matthew Good Band's Running for Home; and Phil Ochs' When I'm Gone.

Little Rock to Leipzig

The album is a mixture of live and studio recordings and is a mixture of traditional songs, original recordings and covers of contemporary songs including "I Fought the Law" by Sonny Curtis and Gonna Do What I Have to Do by Phil Ochs.

Mark Kemp

In 1997 he received a Grammy nomination for his liner notes to the CD Farewells & Fantasies, a retrospective of music by '60s protest singer Phil Ochs. His book Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South was published by Free Press/Simon & Schuster in 2004 and issued in soft cover by the University of Georgia Press in 2006.

Sammy Walker

While appearing on Bob Fass's radio show in 1975, he caught the ear of Phil Ochs, who was impressed by the young songwriter and agreed to produce his first album with Folkways.

Tony Rice

With this album, "Native American" and "Me & My Guitar", Rice arrived at a formula that incorporated his disparate influences, combining bluegrass, the songwriting of folk artists like Ian Tyson, Joni Mitchell, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Bob Dylan and especially Gordon Lightfoot, with nimble, jazz-inflected guitar work.

William Worthy

Folksinger Phil Ochs wrote a song called "The Ballad of William Worthy" about Worthy's trip to Cuba and its consequences.


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