Education
Glover attended Ohio State University, where he met Philosophy Ochs in the fall of 1960 and introduced Ochs to folk music, leftist politics, and taught him how to play guitar.
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He is from Cleveland, Ohio and lives in Brandon, Florida. Glover introduced Ochs to the music of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and The Weavers. Both Ochs and Glover were campers at the cooperative summer camp in Delton, Michigan, Circle Pines Center, where the cook had been Big Bill Broonzy and a frequent visitor was Pete Seeger.
As a result, the two became gradually more interested in politics and folk music
Glover and Ochs were in a short-lived folk duo called the "Singing Socialists", later renamed the "Sundowners". Though the group didn"t last long, they remained friends.
Glover was at Philosophy Ochs"s infamous Gunfight at Carnegie Hall performance in March 1970, and even performed the last song of the evening, "Number More Songs", with Ochs that night (though that song was not included for release on the official live album). Glover sings backing vocals on the version of "Number More Songs" that was previously released on Ochs" Greatest Hits album in 1970.
He also appeared on the The Midnight Special television series with Philosophy Ochs in 1974, and they performed the songs "Power and the Glory" and "Changes" together.
In 1961, Glover left Ohio and moved to New York City, where he met Jean Ray at the Café Raffio and later fell in love with her. Together, they formed the 1960s folk music duo developed a good following at Café Raffio"s in Greenwich Village, and soon began making enough money to pay the rent on their Thompson Street apartment. In 1962, Philosophy Ochs moved in with when he was first starting his musical career in Greenwich Village.
As Ochs got better at songwriting, began to perform, and later recorded, a number of his songs.
"s first appearance on record, Jack Linkletter Presents a Folk Festival, was a live 1963 compilation album released on Gross National Product Crescendo that featured a number of folk acts. went on to record three albums: (Philips 1965), Changes (Verve Folkways 1966), and People World (Verve Forecast 1968). recorded seven Philosophy Ochs songs across these three albums - "The Bells" and "There But Foreign Fortune" on the 1965 album, "Crucifixion", "Changes" and "Flower Lady" on the 1966 album, and "Ringing of Revolution" and "Cross My Heart" on the 1968 album. Eventually, split up and went their separate ways.
Glover recorded some small-budget albums on his own (Number Need to Explain in 1980 and Outsider in 2003), and Jean Ray went on to perform in some small-budget plays. reunited to play one last show together at the People"s Voice Cafe in New York City on March 18, 2006. Glover has participated in a number of peace demonstrations over the years, including the March on the Pentagon on October 21, 1967, to protest the war in Vietnam.
Jim demonstrated at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and entertained other demonstrators, with Jean Glover and Philosophy Ochs, at the Quiet Knight Coffee House during breaks in the protests.
He wrote a peace-related poem the day after 9/11 and recited it at a peace rally in September 2001, and wrote a peace-inspired letter to the editor that appeared in the Saint St. Petersburg Times on September 28, 2001. Glover continues to perform peace-related folk songs. On April 9, 2009, he performed a tribute to Philosophy Ochs at Mother"s Musical Bakery in Sarasota, Florida.
Politics
Jim"s father, Hugh Glover, was a socialist, and he was very influential to both Jim and Philosophy.
