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Phil Ochs was among the best songwriters ever, particularly among the segment of the songwriting profession we classify as topical, politically-oriented, or “protest music,” as the form was condescendingly dubbed by the media in the 1960’s. Phil began his career as a musician when the Civil Rights movement was still young, at the very beginning of the Sixties. He wrote songs about More 1
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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org 4 and was authored by David Rovics.