Cross-posted at the FB group, 50 Phil Ochs Fans Can’t Be Wrong. This slideshow grew out of a larger project I am working on about Phil Ochs, the singer-songwriter-activist-journalist who ultimately committed suicide in 1976. He probably suffered from what we would now diagnose as bipolar disorder, with periods of mania followed by periods of black depression, exacerbated by drug use (mostly amphetamines and valium) and progressive alcoholism. He was also a gifted musician and singer, who was passionately interested in music and music history. His roommate at Ohio State, Jim Glover, apparently turned him on to folk music, including Woody Guthrie. By the time he wrote this song in the early sixties (it appeared on his 1964 debut album, All the News that’s Fit to Sing), he was well versed in Woody’s legend, quite consciously using the title of Woody’s autobiography as his song title. When Phil was going through one of his relatively good periods, in 1975, he became acquainted with Sammy Walker, a talented young singer-songwriter from Georgia, and produced his first album, Songs for Patty, which ended with Sammy’s cover of Phil’s song from a decade before. Phil sings backing vocals on this and on one other song,