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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The documentary Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune details the turbulent two-decade career of Phil Ochs, a folk singer who rose to fame during the 60s with his songs about social justice. However, his ...

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 ...

Though Phil has been honored and lauded by fans and peers in the years since his death, and though songs like “There But for Fortune,” “Cops of the World,” and “Ringing of Revolution” are now timelier ...

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 ...