’Is this what we were racing for?’ she said. She is skeptical by nature, and the brouhaha over Komen’s back-and-forth over funding Planned Parenthood last week didn’t make her angry. It merely flipped the switch that changes skepticism into cynicism. ...

In addition to having socially relevant lyrics, her music spans many styles. Most of her albums probably fall somewhere in the folk rock spectrum, but, her three most recent CD’s reflect the diversity of styles. Her most recent release “Get Your Phil,”...

It’s hard to listen to even her newest work without thinking back to her earliest recordings, which fed a host of traditional ballads into the popular music canon, before she highlighted the work of songwriters ranging from Phil Ochs, Richard Farina,...

This collection of songs now belong to and reside in the Smithsonian Institute. Collier was put into a group of musicians at the time, who were recording with Folkways Records, owned by Moe Asch. The label had artists such as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Pete...

Folksinger "Phil Ochs is a figure both glorious and tragic who haunts the history of the 1960s" (allmusic.com). "An unbelievable story of a true believer... one of the greatest the most passionate voices of the 1960's was the first to be forgotten"...

I was young and heavily into the British Invasion, but the babysitter had a boyfriend who was a folkie; he had Eric Anderson, Dave Van Ronk, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, and of course Dylan. I kinda dug it all. The first album, where he...