Phil Ochs
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Search complete. 22 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Phil Ochs".
Oct 15, 2026
Pete GanbargHOST
There, there's such trivia that you learn about in the book, and you mention Columbia just throwing everything at the wall.
Pete GanbargHOST
In one year, you write in the book, in 1966, Columbia Records put out albums with the same Phil Ochs song-
Mitchell CohenGUEST
Right
Pete GanbargHOST
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TJ2PANELIST
Weirdly, the song is not by Phil.
TJ2PANELIST
He doesn't sing it, and he did not write it, which is a very weird way to start a series on Phil Ochs.
TJ2PANELIST
It is about him, though.
TJ2PANELIST
It is the wildly colorful retelling of an artistic dust-up by someone that was certainly influenced by Phil.
TJ2PANELIST
So this is the late Todd Snider with a song that he and Peter Cooper wrote called Thin Wild Mercury.
TJ2PANELIST
[upbeat rock music]
Todd SniderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Poor Phil Ochs, sad and low.
Todd SniderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hands in his pockets, wondering where to go.
DanHOST
He was clearly ecstatic with the results, hanging out in the back of The Other End, knocking back brandies with Levy and taking in the music scene.
DanHOST
He was getting reacquainted with old friends like Bob Neuwirth, David Blue, Jack Elliott, Roger McGuinn, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Ochs, and Logan English.
DanHOST
And he was becoming acquainted with new ones like Smith, Ronnie Blakely, Sam Shepard, and Rob Stoner.
Ramblin' Jack ElliottSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nobody can throw the ball like catfish can.
Elizabeth NelsonHOST
Mm-hmm
Steven JenkinsGUEST
... again, the organization that leads both the Dylan and the Guthrie centers and all the other holdings that we have in the archives, for example, the Phil Ochs archive-
Elizabeth NelsonHOST
Mm-hmm
Steven JenkinsGUEST
... uh, and a number of other artists.
DaveHOST
[laughs] Uh, next up, we, speaking of good all the way through, we have Up In Heaven, which I thought was a really cool song.
DaveHOST
It was, uh, they co-r- credited, uh, the folk, uh, singer Phil Ochs, because they borrowed some so- some lyrics from his song United Fruit.
DaveHOST
He also, Phil Ochs had a similar political, uh, leanings to The Clash.
SeanGUEST
Oh, okay.
DaveHOST
To have a song about United Fruit, you know.
RobHOST
He was like 25.
RobHOST
Massively into the Grateful Dead, '60s folk music, fucking Phil Ochs, and like, he's like, "You gotta hear this Phil Ochs record, dude.
RobHOST
It's so good." He, like transported from the...
RobHOST
He was like born in the '80s but should've been born in the '50s.
Glenn KaiserGUEST
They would play Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Glenn KaiserGUEST
They would play Phil Ochs, acoustic, protest song stuff.
Glenn KaiserGUEST
They would, they would throw Miles Davis in.
Glenn KaiserGUEST
They would, uh, eclectic, all over the map.
Ian GrantHOST
So it's, like, really scratchy-sounding, but it's actually a very affecting album.
Ian GrantHOST
He does, like, a Phil Ochs song called Changes, which is beautiful.
Steven HydenHOST
Oh, he does Girl From The North Country.
Steven HydenHOST
I've never listened to this.
Wesley StaceGUEST
You're like, "Well, you know, do I have things to say in that way?" But in fact, the guitar playing, playing other people's songs happened quite soon.
Wesley StaceGUEST
But actually playing my own songs happened much more when I listened to people a little bit later on, like John Prine and Phil Ochs, and that felt a little more attainable to me.
Wesley StaceGUEST
It's a little less touched by the hand of God and inspiration, if you know what I mean.
Wesley StaceGUEST
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