Artist: Phil Ochs Label: Elektra Orig. Released: 1965 Catalog No.: LPELEK7287 Condition: Format: LP Retail Price: $ 8.99 (3 available) Quantity: add to cart

Description Phil Ochs' second LP, "accompanying himself on guitar" with twelve original songs..."I Ain't Marching Anymore was Phil Ochs' second LP, released on Elektra Records in 1965. Dispensing with second guitarist Danny Kalb, Ochs performs alone on twelve original songs, an interpretation of Alfred Noyes' "The Highwayman" set to music (much as Poe's "The Bells" had been set to music on the previous album) and a cover of Ewan MacColl's "The Ballad of the Carpenter". Of the twelve originals, probably the most noted was the title track, with its distinctive trilling guitar part, that spoke of a soldier sick of fighting. Also of note was the album closer, "Here's to the State of Mississippi", a biting criticism of that state's lack of civil rights and general bigoted attitude. Other important songs include "Draft Dodger Rag" (assailing those "red blooded Americans" who were in favor of US participation in the Vietnam War but did not fight because they were just summertime soldiers and sunshine patriots), "That Was The President" (a tribute to John Kennedy written soon after his assassination), "Talking Birmingham Jam" (which used the melody to "John Hardy" to assail the racist leaders of Birmingham) and "Links on the Chain" (attacking labor unions for not being all-inclusive). Ochs showed great thematic versatility on the album, including not just blatantly anti-war or protest songs but also poetry (Alfred Noyes, John Rooney, and Ewan MacColl) and some songs his followers probably didn't want to hear. He noted, for instance, in the liner notes that his Marxist friends couldn't understand why he wrote "That Was the President," dryly adding that that was one of the reasons he wasn't a Marxist. He showed more socialist sympathies with the songs "The Men Behind the Guns" and "Ballad of the Carpenter," with its memorable lyric "Jesus was a working man." (Ochs wrote in the liner notes that "songs like this" were one of the reasons the State Department blocked Ewan MacColl from entering the U.S., adding that this was unwise given "the quality of culture in America.") However, ardent socialists were probably unhappy with the song "That's What I Want to Hear," in which Ochs tells an out of work man to stop begging and do something about it. Among more traditional protest songs, the most pointed might be "Iron Lady," about the death penalty, with the memorable line "And a rich man never died upon the chair." (The "iron lady" in the title referred to the electric chair.) Ochs wrote that "in the future, intelligent men will read in amazement about the murder of Caryl Chessman," a rather unequivocal condemnation of the execution of a convicted rapist. But hard hitting songs like that and the title song were softened with sentimental and even romantic songs like "That Was the President" and Noyes' "The Highway Man." And while critical, songs like "Draft Dodger Rag" and "Talking Birmingham Jam" used humor rather than harsh rhetoric to make their points." Read more at Wikipedia about this album or artist ... This description is from Wikipedia, the user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Any changes made to the Wikipedia article will not be immediately reflected here.

Track Titles 1. I AIN’T MARCHING ANYMORE (Ochs, Appleseed ASCAP) 2:32 2. IN THE HEAT OF THE SUMMER (Ochs) 3:01 3. DRAFT DODGER RAG (Ochs, Appleseed ASCAP) 2:07 4. THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO HEAR (Ochs) 3:06 5. THAT WAS THE PRESIDENT (Ochs, Appleseed ASCAP) 3:20 6. IRON LADY (Ochs, Appleseed ASCAP) 3:30 7. THE HIGHWAYMAN (Noyes-Ochs, Appleseed ASCAP) 5:36 1. LINKS ON THE CHAIN (Ochs, Appleseed ASCAP) 4:18 2. HILLS OF WEST VIRGINIA (Ochs, Appleseed ASCAP) 3:21 3. THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS (Rooney-Ochs) 3:00 4. TALKING BIRMINGHAM JAM (Ochs, Appleseed ASCAP) 3:08 5. BALLAD OF THE CARPENTER (MacColl, Stormking BMI) 3:50 6. DAYS OF DECISION (Ochs) 3:12 7. HERE’S TO THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI (Ochs) 5:52

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