Billy Bragg - I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night

Album: The Internationale

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[grndlmagic]

Phil Ochs inspires me still!!!

[sjsturgis]

@arbeitsscheuer The first "Joe Hill" I ever heard was by Joan Baez, and it's still one of my favorites. Do you know it? It's slow and meditative, as if the singer really was waking from a dream. (Posted on the 34th anniversary of Phil's death.)

[sjsturgis]

@MaiHarinder Have you heard John McCutcheon's wonderful story about singing "Joe Hill" at the Sydney Opera House? It's on his CD Untold. Might be online somewhere.

[MaiHarinder]

@sjsturgis The best recording of Joe Hill in my opinion is by thr great Paul Robeson.

[JHERNDO]

@BobTheRecordGuy Libertarian is the ultimate in allowing the big guy to screw over the little guy. Everything we know of Phil (who believed in humanity helping each other and being unified) says he would have never swung over that direction. I agree with the others who said that today he'd likely be considered a socialist.

[robertemmet321]

Phil Ochs is about as close as I've ever come to having a hero. May he rebel in peace forever.

[OBinson]

This is a beautiful song, a lovely little tribute to the man who was my hero in my youth. Phil Ochs shaped my thinking throughout my adulthood. Thank you, Billy!

[CatalystParadox]

@BobTheRecordGuy That's absurd. It is the symbol of a political philosophy that spans all nations, not any one particular regime. You may as well argue that any symbol of democracy is offensive, because of the excesses of the French Revolution - or that symbols of Christianity are offensive, because of the Inquisition.

[savebeautyalone]

The morning star, 'tis neither hammer nor sickle, biblically condemned.. yet they can never kill what they cannot compromise

[BobTheRecordGuy]

@ma166406 : i don't know. Bragg is often ironic. But given the massacres and genocides of Communist regimes, the hammer & sickle is as offensive as the swastika.

[BobTheRecordGuy]

@amimillie : Please don't insult Phil Ochs like that. He was not retarded although he was a little naive is some respects. But he was a patrioitic American and, had he lived, I think he might have become a Libertarian. But a believer in philosophies which take a way freedom and the human soul? I don't think so.