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A Toast to Those Who Are Gone

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Released
  
1986

Length
  
43:57

Release date
  
1986

Label
  
Rhino Entertainment

Recorded
  
early-mid-1960s

Artist
  
Phil Ochs

Producer
  
Bill Inglot

Genre
  
Folk music

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A Toast to Those Who Are Gone (1986)
  
The War Is Over The Best of Phil Ochs (1988)

Similar
  
Phil Ochs albums, Folk music albums

A Toast to Those Who Are Gone is a 1986 compilation album of recordings that Phil Ochs made in the early to mid-1960s, mostly between his contracts with Elektra Records and A&M Records. In line with recordings made on the former, Ochs espouses his left-leaning views on civil rights on songs like "Ballad of Oxford", "Going Down To Mississippi" and "Colored Town", his views on worker's rights on "No Christmas in Kentucky", his attack on the American Medical Association on "A.M.A. Song", and the unwilling hero (perhaps Ochs himself) on the title track.

Contents

The CD carried an extra track, "The Trial", and the liner notes were by noted Ochs fan Sean Penn.

Track listing

All songs by Phil Ochs.

  1. "Do What I Have to Do" – 2:36
  2. "The Ballad of Billie Sol" – 2:24
  3. "Colored Town" – 3:00
  4. "A.M.A. Song" – 2:17
  5. "William Moore" – 3:07
  6. "Paul Crump" – 3:34
  7. "Going Down To Mississippi" – 3:04
  8. "I'll Be There" – 2:10
  9. "Ballad of Oxford (Jimmy Meredith)"  – 2:51
  10. "No Christmas in Kentucky" – 3:04
  11. "A Toast to Those Who Are Gone" – 3:31
  12. "I'm Tired" – 2:20
  13. "City Boy" – 1:58
  14. "Song of My Returning" – 5:17
  15. "The Trial" – 2:44
  16. Bonus track on CD only

Personnel

  • Phil Ochs – guitar, vocals
  • A. N. Other – bass, piano, guitar, mandolin

    • Songs

    1Do What I Have to Do2:36
    2Ballad of Billie Sol2:24
    3Colored Town3:00

    References

    A Toast to Those Who Are Gone Wikipedia
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