One lesser known thing about Phil Ochs is that he was one of the first Western singers to embrace what's now called World Music. In the early 1970's he spent time in Kenya (which is where he was attacked, I believe, not South Africa - I'm sure he would not have visited or been welcome under the then apartheid regime). He recorded a single with local musicians and Phil is singing in the African language (Swahili?). The songs are "Bwatue" and "Niko Mchumba Ngombe". He pre-dated Paul Simon by at least a decade.

After his death his cremated ashes were scattered from the top of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland.

A great, under-acknowledged troubadour and fighter.

Norman