Phil Ochs - Live At Newport '1996

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Introduction: Peter Yarrow
02. Ballad Of Medgar Evers
03. Talking Birmingham Jam
04. Power & The Glory
05. Draft Dodger Rag
06. I Ain't Marching Anymore
07. Links On The Chain
08. Talking Vietnam Blues
09. Cross My Heart
10. Half A Century High
11. Is There Anybody Here
12. The Party
13. Pleasures Of The Harbor

Live at Newport features a dozen songs from Phil Ochs' performances at the 1963,
1964, and 1966 Newport Folk Festival. Four of these cuts were previously
available on the Newport Broadside 1963 and Evening Concerts, Vol. 1
anthologies, but the rest were previously unreleased. While all of these songs
are available on his studio albums, Ochs was in good form for these shows, so
these are good supplementary versions. Especially noteworthy are the 1966
tracks; four of the five songs would appear in far more elaborately produced
arrangements on his Pleasures of the Harbor and Tape from California albums.
These solo acoustic performances are interesting contrasts, putting the voice
and the lyrics at the forefront, in the best unplugged tradition. Ochs' singing
on "Cross My Heart" is painfully flat, but the sincerity of the words and their
importance to him carry the performance. Additionally, the version of "Half a
Century High" (sung as "Half a Century Wise") included here runs over seven
minutes, and contains several verses that never made it into the official studio
recording of this song. The differences point to the tragic side of Ochs'
career, in that he sacrificed chunks of his message and his art, and one of his
best and most personal songs, in pursuit of commercial success and stardom.

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