Live at Newport (Phil Ochs album)

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Live at Newport
Compilation album by
Released1996
Recorded1963, 1964, 1966
GenreFolk
LabelVanguard
Phil Ochs chronology
There and Now: Live in Vancouver 1968
(1990)
Live at Newport
(1996)
Farewells & Fantasies
(1997)

Live at Newport is a 1996 compilation on

fifth
albums, Ochs is at his peak as a folk singer throughout, singing anti-war songs alongside those espousing civil rights and worker's rights, and showcasing some more introspective numbers that would be dramatically rearranged on the fourth and fifth albums.

It was re-released four years later with seven additional tracks recorded in the studio for a Vanguard compilation in 1964, the new disc titled The Early Years.

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[1]

Track listing

All songs by Phil Ochs.

  1. Introduction by Peter Yarrow – 0:56
  2. "The Ballad of Medgar Evers" – 2:44
  3. "Talking Birmingham Jam" – 3:22
  4. "The Power And The Glory" – 2:11
  5. "Draft Dodger Rag" – 2:21
  6. "I Ain't Marching Anymore"
    – 2:36
  7. "Links on the Chain" – 5:05
  8. "Talkin' Vietnam" – 3:42
  9. "Cross My Heart" – 4:44
  10. "Half a Century High" – 7:06
  11. "Is There Anybody Here" – 3:11
  12. "The Party" – 8:11
  13. "Pleasures of the Harbor" – 6:25

Personnel

  • Phil Ochs - guitar, vocals
  • Mary Katherine Alden - reissue producer

References

  1. Allmusic
    . Retrieved December 15, 2011.