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Phil Ochs - On My Way (1963 Demo Session)

Phil Ochs

On My Way (1963 Demo Session)


On April 4, 1963 -- a good year or so before the release of his first album, All the News That's Fit to Sing -- Phil Ochs recorded the 25 songs on this CD onto a friend's reel-to-reel tape recorder while in the midst of an engagement at a Fort Lauderdale, FL coffee house. Most of them were, as you'd expect, topical folk songs; only a few appeared on his official albums, though versions of some others surfaced on posthumous compilations. The only reasons this CD doesn't get a higher rating are that the fidelity is a bit imperfect, and, for the most part, the songwriting is a bit less developed than the work he'd put into his first batch of albums for Elektra in the mid-'60s. This limits the c...

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