WEDNESDAY CLUB - Gene Clark/Phil Ochs - Changes
MIDWEEK CRISIS you need a change, come to WEDNESDAY CLUB we've got an ex Byrd, a singing journalist and an angry young Dylan
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GENE CLARK - Changes
I first heard this song on a sampler included with the price of a music magazine (not free with the magazine, the word free always annoyed me) It was sung by Gene Clark, one of the original Byrds. I loved the song and when I found it was written by Phil Ochs I just had to get hold of that version. I was very aware of PO since the early sixties when I heard Joan Baez's version of his There but for Fortune an absolutely magnificent song.
PO is quite an interesting character and was a contemporary of Dylan and I have always thought there was undercurrents in the books about Dylan that he considered that PO was something of a threat to his numero uno position in his folk writing sphere. There was even a documented occurrence when Dylan apparently threw Ochs out of a limousine.
Some of the titles of Phil Ochs albums are worth buying just for their title : All the news thats fit to sing, I Ain't marching anymore, Rehearsals for Retirement.
Sadly PO took his own life in 1975.
Of the two versions, I have to go for the original, what's your favourite?
I first heard this song on a sampler included with the price of a music magazine (not free with the magazine, the word free always annoyed me) It was sung by Gene Clark, one of the original Byrds. I loved the song and when I found it was written by Phil Ochs I just had to get hold of that version. I was very aware of PO since the early sixties when I heard Joan Baez's version of his There but for Fortune an absolutely magnificent song.
PO is quite an interesting character and was a contemporary of Dylan and I have always thought there was undercurrents in the books about Dylan that he considered that PO was something of a threat to his numero uno position in his folk writing sphere. There was even a documented occurrence when Dylan apparently threw Ochs out of a limousine.
Some of the titles of Phil Ochs albums are worth buying just for their title : All the news thats fit to sing, I Ain't marching anymore, Rehearsals for Retirement.
Sadly PO took his own life in 1975.
Of the two versions, I have to go for the original, what's your favourite?
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