Phil Ochs must be rolling in his grave to have his words so misused and abused in Ned Lamb's opinion piece. First of all, when Ochs declared, "I ain't marching anymore," he wasn't giving up protests.
Growing up in Greenwich Village with a mom who was in High School in the 1960s, you hear a lot of anti-war songs. One Phil Ochs number (covered here by Arlo Guthrie) is called “I Ain't Marchin' ...
His most memorable songs, including “I Ain’t Marching Anymore,” the migrant worker manifesto “Bracero” and the harrowing rumination on the John F. Kennedy assassination “Crucifixion,” feature vivid ...
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 ...
Phil Ochs died in 1976, but the seminal folk-protest singer's life and music is celebrated each year in the Capital Region. The annual Phil Ochs Song Night will once again be hosted by Phil's sister, ...
For I marched to the battles of the German trench In a war that was bound to end all wars Oh I must have killed a million men And now they want me back again But I ain’t marchin’ anymore In today’s ...