Folk Music
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” – Gordon Lightfoot (HD w/ Lyrics)
Phil Ochs – The Highwayman
The Day the Freeway Froze – YouTube
This song is hilarious, even if it does have a very bleak message about highway carnage and some overtones about overthrowing the government and implementing socialism.
Absurdity of the world
“Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life.” – Phil Ochs
Phil Ochs – Davey Moore
I think I spend too many hours a day listening to old Tom Paxton, Malvina Reynolds, Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs recordings
I think I spend too many hours a day listening to old Tom Paxton, Malvina Reynolds, Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs recordings. I think it’s starting to color my views on the world.