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Tape From California | align="center" bgcolor="blue" style="color:white" colspan="3"|Tape From California | | lign="center" colspan="3"| | | lign="center" bgcolor="blue" style="color:white" colspan="3"|Album by Phil Ochs | | lign="left" valign="top"|Released | colspan="2" valign="top"|July 1968 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Recorded | colspan="2" valign="top"|early 1968 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Genre | colspan="2" valign="top"|Folk, Rock, Pop | | lign="left" valign="top"|Length | colspan="2" valign="top"|46 min 55 sec | | lign="left" valign="top"|Label | colspan="2" valign="top"|A&M | | lign="left" valign="top"|Producer | colspan="2" valign="top"|Larry Marks | gcolor="blue" style="color:white" colspan="3"|Professional reviews | align="top"|AMG | valign="top"|3/5 | valign="top"|link | gcolor="blue" style="color:white" colspan="3"|Phil Ochs Chronology | align="top"|Pleasures Of The Harbor
(1967) | valign="top"|Tape From California
(1968) | valign="top"|Rehearsals For Retirement
(1969) | Tape From California was Phil Ochs' fifth album, released in mid-1968 on A&M Records. A step back from its predecessor, a sort of cross between that album and 1966's Phil Ochs In Concert, it featured folk with shades of rock, bluegrass and baroque music. The best-known track was the epic "The War Is Over", a portrait of the ridiculousness of war released at a time when Vietnam seemed as if it would never end. Its upbeat, military-style backing is as appropriate as the backing for "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" had been one year prior, none at all. The opening track, written as he was moving from New York City out to Los Angeles, is the first truly rocking song in Ochs' catalogue, an aural comment on Ochs' own life circa 1968. "The Harder They Fall" was a reworking of nursery rhyme characters into a somewhat menacing and bewildering tale, including lines about Mother Goose stealing lines from Lenny Bruce. "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land", in line with his earlier anti-war songs, is one of the more poetic songs on the album. "When In Rome", lasting over thirteen minutes, was Ochs' longest song, a sort of portrait of depression in the style of Dylan's opus "Desolation Row", set to simple acoustic guitar backing, it could have been about life in ancient Rome, America in the 1960s, or any other point in between. Track Listing - Tape From California (P. Ochs, 6:45)
- White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land (P. Ochs, 3:35)
- Half A Century High (P. Ochs, 2:53)
- Joe Hill (P. Ochs, 7:18)
- The War Is Over (P. Ochs, 4:25)
- The Harder They Fall (P. Ochs, 3:52)
- When In Rome (P. Ochs, 13:13)
- The Floods of Florence (P. Ochs, 4:52)
Participants - Phil Ochs - guitar, vocals
- Larry Marks - producer
- Lincoln Mayorga - piano, keyboards
- Van Dyke Parks - piano, keyboards ("Tape From California")
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott - flat-picked guitar ("Joe Hill")
- Ian Freebairn-Smith - arrangements
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