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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“A migrant worker sweats underneath the blazin’ sun. He’s fallen on his knees but his work is never done. He begs someone to listen but nobody seems to care, And I know that couldn’t happen here. Oh, ...

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 ...