Phil Ochs - There But for Fortune
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Track List: There But for Fortune
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- What's That I Hear
- One More Parade
- Too Many Martyrs
- Power And The Glory
- I Ain't Marching Anymore
- Draft Dodger Rag
- The Highwayman
- Here's To The State Of Mississippi
- There But For Fortune
- I'm Goin To Say It Now
- Is There Anybody Here
- Cops Of The World
- Ringing Of Revolution
- Santo Domingo
- Bracero
- Love Me, I'm A Liberal
- Changes
- When I'm Gone
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Album Details: There But for Fortune
- Release Date:
- 01/01/1989
- Label:
- Elektra / Wea
- UPC:
- 075596083225
User Reviews: There But for Fortune
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, September 10, 1999Reviewer: Rachel - See all Rachel's reviewsA mixture of political statements along with personal, heartfelt songs.
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Pro Reviews: There But for Fortune
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews It's often difficult to create a compilation album that does a musician justice when they recorded for more than one label, and this is certainly the case with Phil Ochs. Ochs' first three albums for Elektra were the work of a gifted but earnest topical songwriter armed with an acoustic guitar, while the five albums that followed for AM found Ochs exploring both personal as well as political issues, and broadening his musical approach. Unfortunately, outside of the three-disc box set Farewells Fantasies and the out of print double-LP collection Chords of Fame, none of the many Ochs compilations that have emerged have featured material from both periods of his recording career, and There but for Fortune devotes itself strictly to Ochs' Elektra recordings, with a special emphasis on his best known political songs. Given its boundaries, There but for Fortune is a fine collection that cherry-picks much of the best material from this catalog, with a special emphasis on the excellent Phil Ochs in Concert -- all but one of its 11 songs appear on this disc, though sadly most of his witty between-song banter has been left on the cutting-room floor. If you're looking for a definitive Ochs anthology, you're going to have to shell out the big bucks for Farewells Fantasies, but There but for Fortune does a fine job of skimming the highlights of Ochs' early political material, and demonstrates why he was considered second only to Bob Dylan as the leading protest balladeer of the day. - Mark Deming, All Music Guide |
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Singer/songwriter Phil Ochs was a selfcoined "singing journalist" when he began performing in New York in the early '60s. Like Bob Dylan, the rival who always outpaced him, Ochs made his reputation singing topical protest songs. He stayed with them m...Full Phil Ochs Biography
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