The Extraordinary Mind Of Phil Ochs
Jacoba Atlas, KRLA Beat, 13 January 1968
PHIL OCHS has packed concert houses from New York's famed Carnegie Hall to the Santa Monica Civic auditorium, has sung at Civil Rights Marches in Washington, and student rallies in Berkeley, has been called everything from a Saint to a charlatan, from a revolutionary to a nihilist, and is, in actuality, totally his own man.
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