I was writing an article on my Phil Ochs book for the RNR magazine which made me get my Phil Ochs albums out and listen once more to the great Phil Ochs.
I chose All The News That’s Fit To Sing – his debut album. It contains a number of my favourite numbers – songs of anger like Too Many Martyrs, One More Parade and Power And The Glory as well as songs of great emotional impact and beauty such as Cecelia. An album doused in the heady fumes of civil rights, injustice and antiwar. An album of great passion and optimism.
A great pleasure to play it once more.
- “One More Parade” (Ochs, Bob Gibson) – 3:00
- “The Thresher” – 2:50
- “Talkin’ Vietnam” – 3:38
- “Lou Marsh” – 4:04
- “Power and the Glory” – 2:15
- “Celia” – 3:08
- “The Bells” (E. A. Poe, with musical adaptation by Phil Ochs) – 3:00
- “Automation Song” – 2:08
- “Ballad of William Worthy” – 2:15
- “Knock on the Door” – 2:47
- “Talkin’ Cuban Crisis” – 2:40
- “Bound for Glory” – 3:15
- “Too Many Martyrs” (Ochs, Bob Gibson) – 2:46
- “What’s That I Hear” – 2:00
- “Bullets of Mexico” – 2:34 – bonus track on CD
