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Tape from California

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Released
  
July 1968

Length
  
46:55

Artist
  
Phil Ochs

Label
  
A&M Records

Recorded
  
early 1968

Producer
  
Larry Marks

Release date
  
July 1968

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Tape from California (1968)
  
Rehearsals for Retirement (1969)

Genres
  
Folk music, Rock music, Pop music, Rock and roll

Similar
  
Phil Ochs albums, Folk music albums

Phil ochs tape from california


Tape from California is Phil Ochs' fifth album, released in mid-1968 on A&M Records. It continues Ochs' musical shift away from straight-ahead protest songwriting toward more orchestral and baroque arrangements.

Contents

Track listing

All songs by Phil Ochs.

Side One

  1. "Tape From California" – 6:45
  2. "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land" – 3:35
  3. "Half A Century High" – 2:53
  4. "Joe Hill" – 7:18
  5. "The War Is Over" – 4:25

Side Two

  1. "The Harder They Fall" – 3:52
  2. "When In Rome" – 13:13
  3. "Floods of Florence" – 4:52

Personnel

  • Phil Ochs - guitar, vocals
  • Larry Marks - producer
  • Joe Osborn - bass guitar on "Tape From California"
  • Lincoln Mayorga - piano, keyboards
  • Van Dyke Parks - piano, keyboards on "Tape From California"
  • Ramblin' Jack Elliott - flat-picked guitar on "Joe Hill"
  • Ian Freebairn-Smith - arrangements

    • Songs

    1Tape From California6:47
    2White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land3:33
    3Half a Century High2:51

    References

    Tape from California Wikipedia
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