Phil Ochs Best of the Rest: Rare and Unreleased Recordings Vinyl LP RSD 2023
Tracklist:
1. In The Heat of Summer
2. That's What I Want To Hear
3. The Men Behind the Guns
4. Days of Decision
5. Here's to the State of Mississippi
6. Sailors and Soliders
7. City Boy
8. I'm Tired
9. I Wish I Could Have Been Along
10. I'm Gonna Say it Now
11. Canons of Christianity
12. Song of Soldier
13. Colored Town
14. The Confession
15. Love Me, I'm A Liberal
16. Take it Out of My Youth
17. Bracero
18. War is Over: 20 November 1967
20. All Quiet on the Western Front
21. No More Songs
More than a torrent, less than a food, the songs of Phil’s early fedgling career poured out of him so quickly that not all were able to fnd their place on his albums, with some only emerging decades later. Demos submitted to Warner/ Chappell before Ochs’ rise to fame dominate this LP’s track listing. While he is known primarily as a songwriter, his talents extend to the creation of short stories, poetry and satire. This collection therefore, fascinatingly, depicts the evolution of Phil’s musical output to fuse the lyrical, the topical and the satirical.
The set therefore refects Ochs fnding his unique lyrical tone, representing a time period spanning his last two albums for Elektra. Released on CD in April 2020, this 20-song set makes its vinyl debut on 2 LPs.