A Toast to Those Who Are Gone

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A Toast To Those Who Are Gone
Compilation album by Phil Ochs
Released	1986
Recorded	early-mid 1960s
Genre	folk
Length	43:57
Label	Rhino
Producer	Ken Perry (remastering) Bill Inglot (remastering)
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (3/5) link
Phil Ochs chronology
Chords of Fame (1976) A Toast To Those Who Are Gone (1986) The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs (1988)

A Toast To Those Who Are Gone was a 1986 compilation of recordings that Phil Ochs made in the early-to-mid 1960s, mostly between his contracts with Elektra Records and A&M Records. In line with recordings made on the former, Ochs espouses his left-leaning views on civil rights on songs like "Ballad of Oxford", "Going Down To Mississippi" and "Colored Town", his views on worker's rights on "No Christmas in Kentucky", his attack on the American Medical Association on "A.M.A. Song", and the unwilling hero (perhaps Ochs himself) on the title track.

The CD carried an extra track, "The Trial", and the liner notes were by noted Ochs fan Sean Penn.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Do What I Have To Do" (P. Ochs) – 2:36
2. "The Ballad of Billie Sol" (P. Ochs) – 2:24
3. "Colored Town" (P. Ochs) – 3:00
4. "A.M.A. Song" (P. Ochs) – 2:17
5. "William Moore" (P. Ochs) – 3:07
6. "Paul Crump" (P. Ochs) – 3:34
7. "Going Down To Mississippi" (P. Ochs) – 3:04
8. "I'll Be There" (P. Ochs) – 2:10
9. "Ballad of Oxford" (Jimmy Meredith) (P. Ochs) – 2:51
10. "No Christmas in Kentucky" (P. Ochs) – 3:04
11. "A Toast to Those Who Are Gone" (P. Ochs) – 3:31
12. "I'm Tired" (P. Ochs) – 2:20
13. "City Boy" (P. Ochs) – 1:58
14. "Song of my Returning" (P. Ochs) – 5:17
15. "The Trial" (P. Ochs) – 2:44
    • Bonus track on CD only

[edit] Participants

• Phil Ochs - guitar, vocals
• A. N. Other - bass, piano, guitar, mandolin

Phil Ochs
Discography
Studio albums: All the News That's Fit to Sing • I Ain't Marching Anymore • Pleasures of the Harbor • Tape from California • Rehearsals for Retirement • Greatest Hits
Live albums: Phil Ochs in Concert • Gunfight at Carnegie Hall • There and Now: Live in Vancouver 1968 • Live at Newport
Other albums: The Campers: Camp Favorites • Interviews with Phil Ochs
Posthumous releases: Songs for Broadside • The Broadside Tapes 1 • A Toast to Those Who Are Gone • The Early Years
Posthumous compilations: Chords of Fame • The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs • There But for Fortune • Farewells & Fantasies • American Troubadour • 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Phil Ochs • Cross My Heart: An Introduction to Phil Ochs
Related articles
Topical song • Protest song • Civil Rights Movement • Opposition to the Vietnam War
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