American Troubadour is a 1997 British 2-CD set that presented a portrait of singer-songwriter Phil Ochs

Phil Ochs

Philip David Ochs was an American protest singer and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice...

' later career, featuring selections from each of the five albums he recorded for A&M Records

A&M Records

A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...

, from various non-album single sides and from a performance Ochs gave on March 13, 1969, in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is notable for the inclusion of Ochs' post-1970 single sides, otherwise unavailable on compact disc and for the inclusion of a cover of Chuck Berry's "School Days", a previously unavailable outtake from Ochs' infamous March 27, 1970, concert at Carnegie Hall.

Disc One

• All songs by Phil Ochs.

1. Cross My Heart
   Cross My Heart (Phil Ochs song)
   "Cross My Heart" is a 1966 song by Phil Ochs, an American singer-songwriter best known for the protest songs he wrote in the 1960s."Cross My Heart" is the first song on Pleasures of the Harbor , Ochs's first album for A&M Records and his first foray into orchestral instrumentation, or "baroque-folk"...
   
   
2. Flower Lady
3. Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
   Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
   "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" is a song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. protest singer from the 1960s. "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", which was originally released on Ochs' 1967 album Pleasures of the Harbor, became one of Ochs' most popular songs....
   
   
4. Pleasures of the Harbor (live)
5. Crucifixion
   Crucifixion (song)
   "Crucifixion" is a 1966 song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. singer-songwriter. Ochs described the song as "the greatest song I've ever written".-The song:...
   
   
6. Tape From California
7. White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land
8. Half A Century High
9. Joe Hill
10. The War Is Over
    The War Is Over (song)
    "The War Is Over" is an anti-war song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. protest singer from the 1960s known for being a harsh critic of the American military-industrial establishment. The song, which was originally released on Tape from California , has been described as "one of the most potent antiwar songs of...
    
    
11. William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park And Escapes Unscathed
12. Here's to the State of Richard Nixon (live)
13. The Scorpion Departs But Never Returns
14. Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore
15. Rehearsals for Retirement

Disc Two

• All songs by Phil Ochs, except where noted.

1. I Kill Therefore I Am
2. The Bells (Edgar Allan Poe
   Edgar Allan Poe
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    and Phil Ochs)
3. The Highwayman (Alfred Noyes
   Alfred Noyes
   Alfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:...
   
    and Phil Ochs)
4. Another Age
5. There But For Fortune
   There but for Fortune (song)
   "There but for Fortune" is a song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. singer-songwriter from the 1960s. Ochs wrote the song in 1963. He recorded it twice, for New Folks Volume 2 and Phil Ochs in Concert...
   
   
6. One Way Ticket Home
   One Way Ticket Home
   "One Way Ticket Home" is a 1970 song by Phil Ochs, an American singer-songwriter best known for the protest songs he wrote in the 1960s."One Way Ticket Home" is the first song on Greatest Hits, which—despite its title—was a collection of new songs...
   
   
7. Jim Dean of Indiana
8. My Kingdom For A Car
9. Gas Station Women
10. Chords of Fame
11. No More Songs
12. Mona Lisa (live) (Jay Livingston
    Jay Livingston
    Jay Livingston was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
    
     and Ray Evans
    Ray Evans
    Raymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films...
    
    )
13. I Ain't Marching Anymore
    I Ain't Marching Anymore (song)
    "I Ain't Marching Anymore" is an anti-war song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. protest singer from the 1960s known for being a harsh critic of the American military industrial complex...
    
     (live)
14. School Days (live) (Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry
    Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
    
    )
15. The Power and the Glory
    Power and the Glory
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16. Kansas City Bomber
    Kansas City Bomber (song)
    "Kansas City Bomber" is a song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. singer-songwriter best known for the protest songs he wrote in the 1960s.In 1972, record producer Lee Housekeeper asked Ochs to write the theme song for the film Kansas City Bomber, a film about roller derby starring Raquel Welch...
    
    
17. Bwatue
    Bwatue
    "Bwatue" is a song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. singer-songwriter best known for the protest songs he wrote in the 1960s. He co-wrote the song with two African musicians named Dijiba and Bukasa. "Bwatue" was written and recorded in 1973....
    
     (Phil Ochs and Dijiba-Bukasa)
18. Niko Mchumba Ngombe (Phil Ochs and Dijiba-Bukasa)
19. Changes (live)

Disc One

• Tracks 1-3 and 5 from Pleasures of the Harbor
  Pleasures of the Harbor
  Pleasures of the Harbor was Phil Ochs' fourth full-length album and his first for A&M Records, released in 1967. It is one of Ochs's most somber albums...
  
  (1967)
• Track 4 from Gunfight at Carnegie Hall
  Gunfight at Carnegie Hall
  Gunfight At Carnegie Hall was Phil Ochs' final album, comprising songs recorded at the infamous, gold-suited, bomb-threat shortened first set at Carnegie Hall in New York City on March 27, 1970, though it contains less than half of the actual concert...
  
  (recorded 1970, released 1975)
• Tracks 6-10 from Tape from California
  Tape from California
  Tape From California is Phil Ochs' fifth album, released in mid-1968 on A&M Records. A step back from its predecessor Pleasures of the Harbor, a sort of cross between that album and 1966's Phil Ochs In Concert, it features folk with shades of rock, bluegrass and baroque music.The best-known track...
  
  (1968)
• Tracks 11 and 13-15 from Rehearsals for Retirement
  Rehearsals for Retirement
  Rehearsals For Retirement was Phil Ochs' sixth album, released in 1969 on A&M Records. Recorded in the aftermath of Ochs' presence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago , it is the darkest of Ochs' albums, a fact exemplified by its cover, a tombstone...
  
  (1969)
• Track 12 from the 1974 single.

Disc Two

• Track 1 from Rehearsals for Retirement (1969)
• Tracks 2-5 and 19 from There and Now: Live in Vancouver 1968
  There and Now: Live in Vancouver 1968
  There And Now: Live in Vancouver 1968 [sic] was a 1990 archival release of a concert by Phil Ochs in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the PNE Garden Auditorium on Thursday, March 13, 1969...
  
  (sic) (recorded March 13, 1969, released 1991)
• Tracks 6-11 from Greatest Hits
  Greatest Hits (Phil Ochs album)
  Greatest Hits was Phil Ochs' seventh LP and final studio album. Contrary to its title, it offered ten new tracks of material, mostly produced by Van Dyke Parks, and was released in 1970...
  
  (1970)
• Tracks 12-13 from Gunfight at Carnegie Hall (recorded 1970, released 1975)
• Track 14 previously unreleased.
• Track 15 from the 1974 single.
• Track 16 from the 1973 single.
• Tracks 17-18 from the 1973 single.