Phil Ochs—America's Fieriest Songwriter
Phil Ochs is possibly the most controversial songwriter in America today, not excluding Dylan. He can write the most vicious political songs, but gets angry at anyone who tries to turn songwriters into propagandists….
But he is not only a political oracle. There is a strong vein of lyricism in his work, too, that came out in the lovely song "The Pleasures Of The Harbour"….
Karl Dallas, "Phil Ochs—America's Fieriest Songwriter," in Melody Maker (© IPC Business Press Ltd.), September 17, 1966, p. 27.
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