A Toast to Those Who Are Gone

A Toast to Those Who Are Gone is a 1986 compilation album of recordings that Phil Ochs made in the early to mid-1960s, mostly between his contracts with Elektra Records and A&M Records. In line with recordings made on the former, Ochs espouses his left-leaning views on civil rights on songs like "Ballad of Oxford", "Going Down To Mississippi" and "Colored Town", his views on worker's rights on "No Christmas in Kentucky", his attack on the American Medical Association on "A.M.A. Song", and the unwilling hero (perhaps Ochs himself) on the title track.

A Toast to Those Who Are Gone
Compilation album by
Phil Ochs
Released1986
Recordedearly-mid-1960s
GenreFolk
Length43:57
LabelRhino
ProducerKen Perry (remastering)
Bill Inglot (remastering)
Phil Ochs chronology
Interviews with Phil Ochs
(1976)		 A Toast to Those Who Are Gone
(1986)		 The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs
(1988)

The CD carried an extra track, "The Trial", and the liner notes were by noted Ochs fan Sean Penn.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Track listing

All songs by Phil Ochs.

  1. "Do What I Have to Do" – 2:36
  2. "The Ballad of Billie Sol" – 2:24
  3. "Colored Town" – 3:00
  4. "A.M.A. Song" – 2:17
  5. "William Moore" – 3:07
  6. "Paul Crump" – 3:34
  7. "Going Down To Mississippi" – 3:04
  8. "I'll Be There" – 2:10
  9. "Ballad of Oxford (Jimmy Meredith)"  – 2:51
  10. "No Christmas in Kentucky" – 3:04
  11. "A Toast to Those Who Are Gone" – 3:31
  12. "I'm Tired" – 2:20
  13. "City Boy" – 1:58
  14. "Song of My Returning" – 5:17
  15. "The Trial" – 2:44
    • Bonus track on CD only

Personnel
  • Phil Ochs – guitar, vocals
  • A. N. Other – bass, piano, guitar, mandolin
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gollark: * planes are cool
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References
  1. "A Toast to Those Who Are Gone > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved December 15, 2011.
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