Joan Baez might be the highest profile long standing activist protest singer. Famous for her earnest vibrato and her rise to fame in the Folk movement of the early sixties. She was the first famous archetypal female protest singer and her relationship with Bob Dylan made them the King and Queen of the Folk scene as […]
1965 seems to have been a groundbreaking year for protest songs with Universal Soldier in the Top Ten in England and Eve Of Destruction No.1 in America. I Ain’t Marching Anymore was the title track from Phil Ochs second album released that year. Ochs was something of an uncompromising and serious anomaly – Elvis Presley meets Che […]