A Toast to Those Who Are Gone

A Toast to Those Who Are Gone
Compilation albumby Phil Ochs
Released	1986
Recorded	early-mid-1960s
Genre	Folk
Length	43:57
Label	Rhino
Producer	Ken Perry(remastering) Bill Inglot(remastering)
Phil Ochschronology
Interviews with Phil Ochs (1976) A Toast to Those Who Are Gone (1986) The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs (1988)

A Toast to Those Who Are Goneis a 1986compilation albumof recordings thatPhil Ochsmade in the early to mid-1960s, mostly between his contracts withElektra RecordsandA&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.

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

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Track listing

All songs by Phil Ochs.

1. "Do What I Have to Do" – 2:36
2. "The Ballad ofBillie 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 trackonCDonly

Personnel

• Phil Ochs – guitar, vocals
• A. N. Other – bass, piano, guitar, mandolin