How Phil Ochs Went from Folk Hero to Rock & Roll Revolutionary
Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2017
PHIL OCHS had been on the stage of Carnegie Hall before. He first headlined there in January 1966, armed with incendiary topical material and witty between-songs banter, and the young audience (The New York Times called it "predominantly teen-aged") lapped it up, even the songs like 'Love Me, I'm a Liberal' that punctured left-wing platitudes.
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