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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. What's That I Hear
2. Bells, The
3. Morning - (previously unreleased)
4. Bound For Glory
5. Highwayman, The
6. Power and the Glory
7. That's What I Want to Hear
8. Links on the Chain
9. Love Me, I'm a Liberal
10. Too Many Martyrs
11. In the Heat of the Summer
12. Here's to the State of Mississippi
13. I'm Going to Say It Now
14. One More Parade
15. Draft Dodger Rag
16. I Ain't Marching Anymore
17. We Seek No Wider War - (previously unreleased)
18. Ringing of Revolution
19. When I'm Gone
20. Song of My Returning
21. There But For Fortune
DISC 2:
1. War Is Over, The
2. I Ain't Marching Anymore - (electric version)
3. White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land
4. Is There Anybody Here?
5. Santo Domingo
6. Song of a Soldier - (previously unreleased, demo version)
7. Cops of the World
8. Bracero
9. Canons of Christianity
10. I Kill Therefore I Am
11. Confession, The - (previously unreleased, demo version)
12. William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed
13. Toast to Those Who Are Gone, A
14. Changes
15. Doll House, The
16. When in Rome
DISC 3:
1. Pretty Smart on My Part
2. World Began in Eden and Ended in Los Angeles
3. Tape From California
4. Chords of Fame
5. Gas Station Women
6. Miranda
7. Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
8. Cross My Heart - (previously unreleased, demo version)
9. Flower Lady
10. Scorpion Departs But Never Returns, The
11. Pleasures of the Harbor
12. Jim Dean of Indiana
13. Rehearsals For Retirement
14. Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore
15. No More Songs
16. Crucifixion
Album Notes
FANTASIES AND FAREWELLS collects material that Phil Ochs recorded for Elektra, A&M and Folkways along with several previously unreleased tracks and also contains a 100-page booklet.
Personnel includes: Phil Ochs (vocals, guitar); Clydie King, Mary Clayton, Sherlie Matthews (vocals); Bob Rakin (guitar, bass); Danny Kalb, Bob Rafkin (guitar); Lincoln Mayorga (piano); Kenny Kaufman (bass); Kevin Kelly (drums); Jim Glover, Bobby Wayne (background vocals); Jack Elliott, Van Dyke Parks, Gary Coleman, Richard Rosmini, Laurindo Almeida, Anne Goodman, Clarence White, Gene Parsons, Bobby Bruce, Mike Rubini, Chris Ethridge, Ry Cooder, James Burton, Don Rich, Tom Scott.
Producers: Jac Holzman, Mark Abramson, Larry Marks, Van Dyke Parks, Phil Ochs.
Compilation producers: Michael Ochs, Gary Stewart, Meegan Lee Ochs.
Engineers include: Paul A. Rothchild.
Recorded between 1964 and 1975. Includes liner notes by Mark Kemp, Meegan Lee Ochs, Ben Edmonds and Michael Ventura.
FAREWELLS & FANTASIES was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes.
Prior to the long-overdue three-disc box set FAREWELLS AND FANTASIES, Phil Ochs had never had a truly comprehensive career retrospective, because rights to his early, topical folk material belonged to Elektra and rights to his later, more personal and idiosyncratic material belonged to A&M.
Leave it to the devoted archivists at Rhino Records to finally bridge that gap, collecting material from both phases of Ochs' career alongside a good chunk of the mid-'60s demos Rhino had previously released on A TOAST TO THOSE WHO ARE GONE. Listening to the material in roughly chronological order like this, the gap between the Elektra and A&M material lessens, as the changes in Ochs' musical and lyrical style appear more gradual and organic. By the end of disc three, however, with bitter tirades like "No More Songs" and "Crucifixion," Ochs' rancorous retirement and eventual suicide become almost a foregone conclusion.
Industry Reviews
...Nearly three decades [after he started out], the sound of Ochs and his guitar taking on Vietnam, brutal cops, smug liberals, pop culture and his oncoming depression still rings out clearly....as a whole, this box vividly chronicles a time and a place and Och's reactions to it all--politically correct, in the best way. - Rating: A
...covers Ochs' difficult migration from being a man who dreamed of hope to a man who finally dreamed only of death....few songwriters wrote more affectingly or intelligently about this period of upheaval than Ochs....a fine reminder of all that is now forsaken.
Rolling Stone (10/16/1997)
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