The Highwayman - Phil Ochs - Live in Vancouver, 1969

This is from an out-of-print live album I have that A&M put out in 1990.
It was archived for 20 years until it was dug up and released with the full support of his brother, Michael, amongst others.
Phil performed it at the Pacific National Exhibition Garden Auditorium in Vancouver in early 1969. This was only a few months after the the Lincoln Park riots, where he had witnessed the peaceful protesters be beaten, violated, arrested, humiliated, and tear gassed by the police. Events like those and many like it depressed him immensely, and would eventually lead to the various mental conditions that plagued him and eventually led to his suicide in 1976.
Despite the downheartedness that followed the rest of his career, including this show, it was one of the most beautiful shows he ever did.
The album is called 'There and Now: Live in Vancouver 1968'. The album title date is inaccurate.
***
Read my album review of Tape From California at:
bit.ly/2H3GTCc

[@SkySusan1]

Love ❤️ is love... 😢... Night comes, to be followed by day... Sky

[@LawrencedeMartin]

Folk singers are suppressed by the music business today, they don't like poetry or inception of social ideas. For that matter, there is not much room for sadness like this.

[@Karpp1nen]

Must be one of the most moving songs, performances and poems I've ever heard. Hats off to Phil Ochs!

[@stuka97]

The most hauntingly beautiful song ever song by an exquisite artist. RIP Phil Ochs

[@omo8310]

The part he strums the guitar makes such an emotional feeling.

[@notmethnx]

Rip young blood

[@BazookaTooth707]

I do my best to tell people about Phil Ochs. RIP to a great poet and bright soul.

[@notmethnx]

U know he didn't write that

[@BazookaTooth707]

@@notmethnx Never claimed he did, but he wrote plenty of other great songs. Did you know that?

[@notmethnx]

@@BazookaTooth707 don't test me bro I m in deep

[@notmethnx]

@@BazookaTooth707 I don't play

[@BazookaTooth707]

@@notmethnx Don't get your panties in a bunch. You're the one who started this interaction. lol

[@SkySusan1]

And still... Sky

[@jeffmatuszak477]

Phil WAS The Highwayman!💜

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

Oh something something my mother something something she had the hots for philoaks when she was a teenager

[@notmethnx]

Good song.., good poo

[@username-yc3bd]

@@notmethnx me when lobotomy

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

I like drunk Phillips I'm going to play my tomatoes and pray to God I don't want God good Lord you know what we're all going to hell