In 1966 a young man from El Paso, Texas sat down with his guitar and imagined a world without him in it: Won’t be asked to do my share when I’m gone […] / Can’t sing louder than the guns when I’m gone […] / Can’t add my name into the fight while I’m gone / So I guess I’ll have to do it while I’m here. For Phil Ochs—the great American folksinger, songwriter, and political activist—the most daunting part of no longer walking the earth was that he could no longer fight to improve it. He would die ten years later, at the age of 35.

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