Tape from California explained

Tape from California
Type:	Album
Artist:	Phil Ochs
Cover:	Tape from California (Phil Ochs album - cover art).jpg
Released:	July 1968
Recorded:	early 1968
Genre:	Folk, rock, pop
Length:	46:55
Label:	A&M
Producer:	Larry Marks
Prev Title:	Pleasures of the Harbor
Prev Year:	1967
Next Title:	Rehearsals for Retirement
Next Year:	1969

Tape from California is Phil Ochs' fifth album, released in mid-1968 on A&M Records. It continues Ochs' musical shift away from straight-ahead protest songwriting toward more orchestral and baroque arrangements.

Track listing

All songs by Phil Ochs.

Side One

1. "Tape From California" – 6:45
2. "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land" – 3:35
3. "Half A Century High" – 2:53
4. "Joe Hill" – 7:18
5. "The War Is Over" – 4:25

Side Two

1. "The Harder They Fall" – 3:52
2. "When In Rome" – 13:13
3. "Floods of Florence" – 4:52

Personnel

• Phil Ochs - guitar, vocals
• Larry Marks - producer
• Joe Osborn - bass guitar on "Tape From California"
• Lincoln Mayorga - piano, keyboards
• Van Dyke Parks - piano, keyboards on "Tape From California"
• Ramblin' Jack Elliott - flat-picked guitar on "Joe Hill"
• Ian Freebairn-Smith - arrangements

External links

• Web site: Liner Notes for Phil Ochs's Tape from California . Richie . Unterberger . Richie Unterberger .