His best was marvelous, the rest was mediocre at worst. As happened so often during the Great Scare, the best renderings of his stuff was by other people, since back then it was not a badge of shame to do someone else's stuff, as it seems to be now among singer/songwriters. Baez, CMT, lots of others even unto Glen Yarbrough, (whose rendering of "Crucifixion" will nail you to your seat with your jaw on the floor) produced glorious work with Ochs's music. I only saw him perform live once (MIT, 1968) and it left a great deal to be desired as a performance.