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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...