RockBeat Records may not be an instantly recognizable label, but they are re-releasing some of the most influential music in rock, folk blues history – albums from Arthur Lee and Love, Phil Ochs, Doc Watson, Freddie Fender, Big Joe Williams, Del Shannon, Mississppi John Hurt and Mighty Joe Young. Significant albums by all these legendary […]
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Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune –American Masters Looks At The Life And Death Of An American Original!
Phil Ochs was a protest singer’s protest singer. He wrote what he saw, and what he saw was injustice. Unlike more famous and more lauded protest singers, he didn’t couch his songs in metaphor – he was incisive and disturbing. On American Masters [PBS, 10/9C], Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune follows Ochs’ life and […]