Folk music is supposed to advocate for peace and harmony, but Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs didn't have an exactly harmonious relationship.

It’s taken a few months, since he lives in the Netherlands, but Eric Andersen finally found time to watch A Complete Unknown. And the troubadour legend, who haunted those same Village clubs during ...

Regarding the latter, in 2005, Neil Young told Time that Phil Ochs was “the master.” “If I’d like to be anyone, it’s him,” said Young. “And he’s a great writer, true to his music ...

“There were many people who were pivotal people in the Greenwich Village scene who are not there at all; important people like Phil Ochs, Len Chandler and Tom Paxton, which I found really ...

Born on December 19th, 1940, in El Paso, Texas, Phil Ochs moved to New York in the early 1960s, quickly joining the radical Greenwich Village band of political performers. Inspired by political ...

By Jim Farber Phil Lesh, whose expansive approach to the ... Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images He had formal training in those last two areas, having played both classical ...

One especially tense evening, Andersen witnessed Dylan lacing into Phil Ochs. As Dylan drifted from topical writing, Ochs fully embraced it—and was being lauded for it within their world.

Folk singer Phil Ochs was one of the first protesters arrested during the tumultuous 1968 convention when he hauled in a pig named “Pigasus” as the presidential nominee of the “Yippies.” ...

Phil Ochs, renowned for his 1960s protest songs, notably critiqued the American military-industrial complex with 'I Ain't Marching Any More.' Released in 1965, the song protested the Vietnam War ...

For folk singer and activist Phil Ochs (1940-1976), the ultimate insult came in the early ’60s, from his contemporary and rival, Bob Dylan. One evening, after both had performed at a Carnegie ...