In the 27 years that Sonny Ochs has been organizing the Phil Ochs Song Nights, she’s had quite a few performers ask to be included on the bill. Some have been with the show almost since the beginning ...

ALBANY – On Saturday evening, The Linda will celebrate the songs of Phil Ochs, a prolific folk singer and songwriter of the 1960s whose lyrics ring true to today’s listeners. “The sad thing to me and ...

The late Phil Ochs used to boast that most of his songs were inspired by reading Newsweek. He sang about Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement, and preferred to be called a "singing journalist" rather ...

Late in his short life, Phil Ochs, one of the shining lights of the Greenwich Village folk protest movement, worried whether his songs would be remembered. The news from four decades on is good. Neil ...

Phil Ochs (1940-76) was an American protest singer and songwriter known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and distinctive ...

When folksinger Phil Ochs wrote: “It’s always the old who lead us to the war, it’s always the young who fall/ Now look at all we’ve won with a saber and the gun, tell me is it worth it all?” he helped ...

When I heard there was going to be a Philadelphia tribute to folksinger Phil Ochs, I had to attend. Ochs provided the soundtrack to my high school years. As my grades attested, I spent more time ...

Phil Ochs was among the best songwriters ever, particularly among the segment of the songwriting profession we classify as topical, politically-oriented, or “protest music,” as the form was ...

President John F. Kennedy. John Lennon. If you are of a certain age, you remember where you were when you learned of the untimely deaths of those iconic figures. But, JJ Goldberg adds one more icon to ...