Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune A warts-and-all portrait of a singer and his celebrity, "Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune" is an overdue look at the '60s folk movement's anti-Dylan.

PostEverything Why Phil Ochs is the obscure ’60s folk singer America needs in 2017. And Lady Gaga should sing one of his songs at the Super Bowl.

(This week, I decided to “lend” my Poptional Reading blog to my Westchester Magazine colleague, Carol Caffin, a music aficionado and former music publicist, who is a huge fan of 1960s folk and ...

Phil Ochs, the nimble, winking troubador of revolution, truly believed he could change the world with songs and action. When America failed to cast off its dark manners, Phil took it personally. Which ...

Phil Ochs, protest singer, died forty years ago. I can still hear his music.

Phil Ochs at the Newport Folk Festival in July, 1964. Photo: Getty Images. Late in his short life, Phil Ochs, one of the shining lights of the Greenwich Village folk protest movement, worried ...

There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs By Michael Schumacher Hyperion, 386 pages, $24.95 For folk singer and activist Phil Ochs (1940-1976), the ultimate insult came in the early ’60s ...

Bob Dylan Was Not Pleased by Phil Ochs’ Opinion About One of His Songs. More often than not, a friendship or at least an acquaintanceship, is not ruined by one singular event.

Like this week’s gathering, the 1968 one took place in Chicago after the president exited the race, but its protests — featuring singer Phil Ochs and a pig — turned violent.

The No Ones-Peter Buck, Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen, Scott McCaughey, and Frode Strømstad-share "Phil Ochs Is Dead," the latest track from their new album, My Best Evil Friend, out March 31 on Yep Roc ...