I never met Phil Ochs. Seeing as how I was only 11 when he hung himself in 1976, the prospects of such a meeting were decidedly slim. The disturbing thing, however, is that most Americans, even those ...

A dark shadow hangs over Kenneth Bowser’s documentary portrait “Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune.” It isn’t the 1976 suicide of the singer, who gained a modest amount of prominence in the 1960s with ...

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 ...

Protest singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, with just a guitar and a vibrato tenor, found the sources for his lyrics in daily and weekly periodicals, titling his 1964 debut album All the News That’s Fit to ...

Jacob “Jack” Ochs was born in Manhattan on Aug. 11, 1909, the youngest of four children. While attending medical school in Edinburgh, Scotland, he fell in love with Gertrude Phin ...

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 ...

For whatever strange reason, the late American protest singer Phil Ochs always has been overshadowed by Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and other contemporaries. Now, more than 30 years after Ochs took his own ...