American Troubadour

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American Troubadour
Compilation album by Phil Ochs
Released	1997
Recorded	1967-1974
Genre	Folk
Label	A&M
Producer(s)	Larry Marks, Van Dyke Parks, Arthur Gorson and Phil Ochs

American Troubadour was the 1997 British 2-CD set that chronologized the five albums and various non-album singles that singer/songwriter Phil Ochs released on A&M Records between 1967 and 1974. Released in the same year as Farewells & Fantasies, the three-CD set that chronologized Ochs' career on both Elektra and A&M, there are still many reasons to own American Troubadour, namely the inclusion of the five post-1970 sides that, for whatever reason, did not appear on the box set.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

1. "Cross My Heart"
2. "Flower Lady"
3. "Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends"
4. "Pleasures of the Harbor"
5. "Crucifixion"
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"
11. "William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed"
12. "Here's to the State of Richard Nixon"
13. "The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns"
14. "Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore"
15. "Rehearsals for Retirement"

[edit] Disc two

1. "I Kill Therefore I Am"
2. "The Bells" (Poe, interpretation by Ochs)
3. "The Highwayman" (Noyes, interpretation by Ochs)
4. "Another Age"
5. "There But For Fortune"
6. "One Way Ticket Home"
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" (Evans-Livingston)
13. "I Ain't Marching Anymore"
14. "School Days" (Berry)
15. "The Power And The Glory"
16. "Kansas City Bomber"
17. "Bwatue" (Ochs-Dijiba-Busaka)
18. "Niko Mchumba Ngombe" (Ochs-Dijiba-Busaka)
19. "Changes"

• All songs by Ochs, except where noted.