Ochs is the author of three books, Rock-and-Roll Woman (Sterling, 2018),[2] Aretha: The Queen of Soul,[2] and Bruce Springsteen: An Illustrated Biography (Quarto, 2018).
[3] She contributed to the Belmont award-winning Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives (UT Press, 2017).
Her writing has appeared in numerous other publications, including Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Salon.com, the Boston Phoenix, the Houston Chronicle and New York Magazine.
Their debut, Trouble Creek,[5] was released on Philadelphia indie label, Dren Records, in 2004 and earned them an appearance on "Mountain Stage", the internationally syndicated PRI radio program, the following year.
She periodically performs with blues/R&B band Miss Lucy & Walker Blue, along with Brazilian harmonica player Alex "Pardal" Siclari and members of Eaglemania,[6] The Porchistas and the Zydeco Revelators.