American Troubadour


American Troubadour is a 1997 British 2-CD set that presented a portrait of singer-songwriter Phil Ochs' later career, featuring selections from each of the five albums he recorded for A&M Records, 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.

Track listing

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

Disc Two

  • All songs by Phil Ochs, except where noted.
  1. I Kill Therefore I Am
  2. The Bells
  3. The Highwayman
  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
  13. I Ain't Marching Anymore
  14. School Days
  15. The Power and the Glory
  16. Kansas City Bomber
  17. Bwatue
  18. Niko Mchumba Ngombe
  19. Changes

Disc One

Disc Two

  • Track 1 from Rehearsals for Retirement
  • Tracks 2–5 and 19 from There and Now: Live in Vancouver 1968
  • Tracks 6–11 from Greatest Hits
  • Tracks 12–13 from Gunfight at Carnegie Hall
  • Track 14 previously unreleased.
  • Track 15 from the 1974 single.
  • Track 16 from the 1973 single.
  • Tracks 17–18 from the 1973 single.