It's no surprise that some of the most important and enduring protest songs in rock history came out of the '60s, from Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son" to John Lennon's "Give Peace a ...

Folksinger and quintessential left-leaning activist Phil Ochs floated around the edges of Greenwich Village royalty in the ’60s, maintaining an on-again, off-again friendship/rivalry with Bob Dylan ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. For a time, Phil Ochs was considered Bob Dylan's greatest rival for the crown atop the politicized folk music movement of the 1960s. His life ...

Phil Ochs once told a friend he “went to New York to become the best songwriter in the country, and then I met Dylan and I decided to be the second best.” Unfortunately, nobody remembers who finished ...