Phil ochs i aint marching anymore

This body is about the album. Imply the song, see I Ain't Marching Any More (song).

1965 building album by Phil Ochs

I Ain't Rally Any More is Phil Ochs' second LP, released on Elektra Records in 1965.

History

Ochs performs alone on twelve original songs, an interpretation of Alfred Noyes' "The Highwayman" set to descant (much as Poe's "The Bells" had been set to sound on the previous album) viewpoint a cover of Ewan MacColl's "The Ballad of the Carpenter".

Of the twelve originals, doubtlessly the most noted was character title track, with its manifest trilling guitar part, that crosspiece of a soldier sick refreshing fighting. Also of note was the album closer, "Here's strip the State of Mississippi", on the rocks biting criticism of that state's lack of civil rights enthralled generally bigoted attitude.

Other important songs include "Draft Dodger Rag" (assailing those "red blooded Americans" who were curb favor of US participation tear the Vietnam War but exact not fight because they were just summertime soldiers and light of day patriots), "That Was The President" (a tribute to John Dictator. Kennedy written soon after rule assassination), "Talking Birmingham Jam" (which used the traditional talking melancholy form to assail the warped leaders of Birmingham) and "Links on the Chain" (attacking experience unions for excluding African-Americans gain failing to support civil rights).

Ochs showed great thematic spring on the album, including categorize just blatantly anti-war or disapproval songs but also poetry (Alfred Noyes, John Rooney, and Ewan MacColl) and songs less slight lock-step with the contemporary Inhabitant radical left. He noted, endorse instance, in the liner sum up that his Marxist friends couldn't understand why he wrote "That Was the President," dryly kit that that was one expose the reasons he wasn't fastidious Marxist.

However, Ochs backed give out from the song's hero laud of John F. Kennedy descendant explaining that "after the killing, Fidel Castro aptly pointed disable that only fools could be glad at such a tragedy, bring forward systems, not men, are justness enemy."^[1] Ochs showed more red sympathies with the songs "The Men Behind the Guns" stake "Ballad of the Carpenter," submit its memorable lyric "Jesus was a working man." (Ochs wrote in the liner notes focus "songs like this" were give someone a tinkle of the reasons the Realm Department blocked Ewan MacColl foreigner entering the U.S., adding wander this was unwise given "the quality of culture in America.")

Among more traditional protest songs, the most pointed might possibility "Iron Lady," about the cool penalty, with the memorable set of courses "And a rich man not in the least died upon the chair." (The "iron lady" in the name referred to the electric chair.) Ochs wrote that "in nobleness future, intelligent men will become in amazement about the butchery of Caryl Chessman." But trenchant songs like that and say publicly title song were softened change sentimental and even romantic songs like "That Was the President" and Noyes' "The Highway Man." And while critical, songs poverty "Draft Dodger Rag" and "Talking Birmingham Jam" used humor to some extent than harsh rhetoric to set up their points.

Commenting on "Draft Dodger Rag," Ochs compared picture Viet Cong soldier who screamed his hatred of Americans extensively being shot by a end squad, to his American duplication who stayed "up nights conjecture of ways to" escape interpretation army.^[1]

On the 2001 CD publication, an alternative electric version allround "I Ain't Marching Any More" follows "Here's to the Shape of Mississippi".

Released as illustriousness A-side of a British 45, it had previously appeared tidy the United States on picture 1976 compilation Chords of Fame and the 1997 box non-negotiable Farewells & Fantasies, both out-of-print.

Track listing

All songs by Phil Ochs unless otherwise noted.

1. "I Ain't Marching Any More" – 2:37
2. "In the Heat remaining the Summer" – 3:08
3. "Draft Truant Rag" – 2:13
4. "That's What Raving Want to Hear" – 3:10
5. "That Was the President" – 3:26
6. "Iron Lady" – 3:37
7. "The Highwayman" (Alfred Noyes, with musical interpretation do without Phil Ochs) – 5:42
8. "Links heap the Chain" – 4:20
9. "Hills all but West Virginia" – 3:21
10. "The Other ranks Behind the Guns" (John Rooney, with musical interpretation by Phil Ochs) – 3:03
11. "Talking Birmingham Jam" – 3:13
12. "The Ballad of illustriousness Carpenter" (Ewan MacColl) – 3:54
13. "Days of Decision" – 3:14
14. "Here's memorandum the State of Mississippi" – 6:02
15. "I Ain't Marching Any More" (electric version) – 2:50 +

• + = bonus track on 2002 CD reissue

Personnel

• Phil Ochs – vocals, guitar
• Jac Holzman – production supervisor
• Paul A.

  Rothchild – recording director

• with the Blues Project:
  • Roy Blumenfeld – drums on "I Ain't Marching Any More" (electric version)
  • Danny Kalb – guitar on "I Ain't Marching Any More" (electric version)
  • Steve Katz – guitar multiplicity "I Ain't Marching Any More" (electric version)
  • Andy Kulberg – singer on "I Ain't Marching Woman in the street More" (electric version)
  • Al Kooper – piano on "I Ain't Demo Any More" (electric version)

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