Says he could never cue what they. Find never. A just the fashions Chinese didn t critics needed the songs a song just as true tonight as they the struggle who carried. Those struggle we will. Win the soul move freedom rings out loud from the valleys and from here to us where people stand up full of the rights Phil Ochs He s with us do Phil Ochs inspire. Us to. Yes he dies this is Dick flax this is the culture protest. And tonight we re going to observe 2 anniversaries connected to 2 of the foremost troubadours of the last half century political we conscious troubadours if you will and the 1st is obviously Phil Ochs. Billy Bragg we just heard him sing a tribute song to Phil Ochs memory Phil Ochs was born assembler 191940. He died at a very young age he died at age 35 he committed suicide. And next year will mark a anniversary of that as well as he rounded off the 80th anniversary of his birth. Phil Ochs was not the most well known of the remarkable group of singer songwriters who came
The folk music farewell to summer and Its Discontents when we ve got a lot of discontent coming up in the 2nd hour now what we also get to do every week at this time is to point you in the direction of the Web site alive and picking dot org That s one word with a dot there l i v e a n d p I see Gary and g. Dot org that s run by Mary Catherine Auld and she has of multiple things on her website fascinating stuff about New Orleans all the things like that but I m directing your attention to the folk and roots music calendar in which she assembles in one place a calendar of all of the people more many of them will be appearing at major venue s from Santa Barbara down to San Diego coming up tonight as a matter of fact 2 legends roots music and folk rock and everything in between Chris Hillman and her Peterson will be at the Pepperdine University Center for the arts on Monday I might just have to get myself out as for read those because one of my favorite female singers great thing or find
O R G slash listen tell your smart speaker to play W O U B. I I m your Macau going on welcome to live in the for Peace Ranch stuff and Grossman s a lot of instructional things over the years and he s a wonderful man to listen to whether he s playing his own work or reverend Davis . I am. I am. You have to understand also the 1st row the good topic is in the like me and we I m a guitar player. Now and I was 15. I was going to an all boys high school Brooklyn Tech. And I had no idea how to relate to women. So my brother who is older. Said You have to learn how to play an instrument guitars a good one for picking up girls. I thought OK well watched I do my brother s name was called What should I do so it will go to Greenwich Village and I looked at my parents who were typical Jewish Brooklyn communists. And I says that all right mom and dad to go to Greenwich Village said Yes yes get some of those you know commie records Woody Guthrie Pete Seeger and all that stuff I said OK And so I we
Sean Clements with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says those criteria were too hard to meet it s difficult to see those animals in the litter and see them going as behavior is oftentimes will have an animal there for every year and we car makers criteria the new rules no longer require that the actual fish eating be witnessed that means more sea lions are likely to be killed for n.p.r. News I m Cassandra pro Fida in Portland president trams former personal lawyer and fixer is due to report to federal prison tomorrow Michael Cohen begins a 3 year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in New York I m Barbara Klein n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations and their contributors include a.b.p. Committed to transforming the way work gets done with h.r. Talent Time benefits and payroll and formed by data and designed for people a.d.p. Always designing for people. Support for Studio 360 and the following message come from legals You used
Voice but I was asked to coordinate this day and when you told me me me that when you did the interview how close it was his passing I just did not expect that he was going to sound his he was vibrant and philosophic he used his songs and his wisdom this was his biography really and it was crystal clear and he energized himself every time he told a story about someone who was hurt or disenfranchised and I do hope that you appreciate it and I hope that you appreciate the work that Richard Barr has put into bringing Pete Seeger to us again and you can make sure that you keep him because every time I listen his wisdom is so fresh and so Fidler and so stimulating and so terribly on point both in its. Condemnation of of militarism and poverty. As well as his inspiration in his hope for the potential of human kind to be realized and you can have that you really should commit to this station and I m going to let Richard get on with the programming but I really need to say that you really can