Phil Ochs - The Ringing of Revolution.

This is Ochs in his days when he would have been labelled as  "a protest singer". He rejected this and said he was, "a commentator on the contemporary scene". Certainly some of his stuff was hard hitting ( I ain't marching anymore) but his training as a journalist made his use of words both effective and sometimes cynical and sarcastic. Although a deeply troubled man in later life, he also had boundless energy and apparently a great sense of humour together with an overriding sense of mission, which was to lead to his downfall.. It was only after the Democratic Mayor Daley sent in the troops at the Democratic Convention in Chicago that his sense of America being a just society began to decay and eventually led to his subsequent awful downward spiral.
There area couple of good books on him - one written by Michael Schumacher and called, "There But For Fortune" which unfortunately sent me into a period of depression so read it at your peril. It is a better book than the other one, written by Marc Eliot and called "Death Of a Rebel" and more comprehensive about his musical career.  Schumacher however does duck some of the issues about Ochs that Eliot tackles such as his womanising and minor criminal activities. Only Schumacher must know why he chose to omit this information and perhaps his intentions were not to smear a man who to many is a hero of his time.
Certainly Bob Dylan does not come out well from either of the books and having been helped by Ochs when he was penniless later threw him out of his car when Ochs, who believed that the truth should always be out, criticised an album that Dylan had made. There is no doubt that Dylan plagiarised his work, as he did that of other artists but this has gone on throughout the ages.
The label, "Rebel" that Eliot used is probably appropriate and in my experience rebels have, in most instances, advanced society. However the topic of rebels is for another day.