Phil ochs i aint marching anymore

This article is about the album. For the song, see I Ain't Marching Any More (song).

1965 studio album by Phil Ochs

I Ain't Marching Any More is Phil Ochs' second LP, released on Elektra Records in 1965.

Phil ochs most famous song

History

Ochs performs alone on twelve original songs, an interpretation of Alfred Noyes' "The Highwayman" set to music (much as Poe's "The Bells" had been set to music on the previous album) and a cover of Ewan MacColl's "The Ballad of the Carpenter".

Of the twelve originals, probably the most noted was the title track, with its distinctive trilling guitar part, that spoke of a soldier sick of fighting. Also of note was the album closer, "Here's to the State of Mississippi", a biting criticism of that state's lack of civil rights and generally bigoted attitude.

Other important songs include "Draft Dodger Rag" (assailing those "red blooded Americans" who were in favor of US participation in the Vietnam War but did not fight because they w