Originally Posted By: Mark Hayes
Originally Posted By: rayc
I 1st discovered politics in song when someone played "Okie from Muskogee" by American country music artist Merle Haggard.

I saw Phil Ochs perform "Hippie from Olema" at Carnegie Hall, before the bomb threat cleared the house.

All I remember now is the title, and the preface in which he had very kind words for Merle.


You lucky fellow, Phil was amazing..his songs are wonderful and the arrangements on the albums are insanely good. Weird for a folky but a folky nevertheless. You're lucky to have seen him. I didn't "discover" him until about 2005.


Cheers
rayc
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