Most of Phil Och's writing seemed a bit too literal to me...but some of it was brilliant. As to his singing and performing style...hmmm. Well, I was not hugely impressed with that for some reason, but it might just be that I didn't hear him often enough to get a proper feel for what he was doing. You need some time to get to know an artist's body of work in order to fully appreciate it, and I never got to know Phil Och's material very well nor did I get to know him very well as a person. I just wasn't drawn to him for some reason...whereas I was very much drawn to various other folksingers at the time.

There might be no real reason for it at all...it might just be happenstance. I mean, heck, I never really "got" Lightfoot either until some time in the mid to late 70's. Why that was, I don't know, but I eventually grew to love the guy's songs after I finally familiarized myself with his amazing song catalog and got to hear all the brilliant early stuff he recorded that had gone by at the time without me giving it much (if any) notice.