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Title: Powerful, poignant, beautiful
Review: There is no point in saying which is the "best" Phil Ochs album. Personally, I enjoy listening to his acoustic solo albums and his highly arranged pop-rock recordings as well. But this recording of a live concert in Vancouver is highly recommended, both to intense Ochs fans as well as others just discovering him.I've been listening to music for nearly 50 years (ever since I was a young tyke digging Elvis) and IMO Phil Ochs had one of the most beautiful and haunting voices of any singer ever, in any genre. In this live concert, the beauty of his voice is still present but you can also hear the anger as his early idealism was becoming embittered. Many people think of Phil Ochs as primarily a "protest singer" but he was also a poet of the human soul, including of his own tormented soul. During this concert, you hear a good range of his more personal as well as his political works. All sung and played in straight-ahead, unadorned fashion.
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