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  Country Joe McDonald
Country Joe still makes this song stand out and his delivery is tremendous.
Joe informs us that men treated her disrespectfully because she made equal wages to them.
Joe reads a very touching poem, “Birch Canoe,” which was written by a nurse.
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  CMT.com : Country Joe McDonald : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
McDonald continued to be active in politics in the mid-1960s and published a left-wing magazine, Rag Baby.
With McDonald's political lyrics set to a dynamic rock beat, Country Joe and the Fish became popular in the San Francisco Bay area, performing frequently at the Jabberwocky coffeehouse in Berkeley and the Avalon and Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.
In the aftermath of the festival, McDonald was arrested in Worcester, Massachusetts for inciting an audience to lewd behavior, while Melton was arrested for possession of marijuana.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/mcdonald_country_joe/bio.jhtml   (1231 words)

  
 Country Joe McDonald, Biography
Joe and his band had signed a recording contract with Vanguard Records in December of '66 and, having recorded it at Sierra Sound in Berkeley, were unaware of and more or less free from the watchful eyes of a record company.
Joe left the troupe in late 1971 feeling that Fonda had missed the point; she did not seem to understand the problems the GIs and the returning Vietnam veterans were going through, and perhaps never would.
Joe's reasoning at the time was that he could ride his bike to the studio, and he didn't have to get on a plane to go and see the record company.
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 Country Joe McDonald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Country" Joe McDonald (born Joseph McDonald, on January 1, 1942 in El Monte, California) was the leader and lead singer of the 1960s rock and roll group Country Joe and the Fish.
Country Joe has recorded 33 albums and has written hundreds of songs over a career spanning 40 years.
He and Barry Melton co-founded Country Joe and The Fish which became a pioneer psychedelic band with their eclectic performances at The Avalon, Fillmore, Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock.
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 Country Joe McDonald, The Country Joe Band
Country Joe & The Fish created a style of music that captured the feelings of many youth at the height of the Free Speech Movement.
Encouraged by the nation’s political division caused by the war in Iraq, The Country Joe Band is back with an edgy sound that is strengthened by a political voice.
Joe and Barry and I were living in a house in Berkeley in '65-'66.
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 Country Joe McDonald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Country Joe and The Fish / Country Joe and the Fish
Woodstock (1970) (as Country Joe and the Fish)....
Revolution (1968) (as Country Joe and the Fish)....
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 Country Joe McDonald News
Country Joe McDonald had cut his hair, Mitch Ryder joked about his double hip-replacement surgery, Woodstock icon/relic Wavy Gravy warned against "the brown antacid" and the crowd looked like it had come for a...
Courtesy of Country Joe McDonald Members of the rock band Iron Butterfly, known for its 17-minute anthem "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," will be in Baumholder, Germany, in June for the "Heroes of Woodstock" concert tour.
Singer-guitarist Country Joe McDonald of Country Joe and the Fish is 63.
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 Country Joe McDonald Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
McDonald released the first Country Joe and the Fish record, containing an agit-prop folk version of "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" on Rag Baby in October 1965, in time for the Vietnam Day Teach-In, a massive anti-war protest organized in Berkeley, California.
With the release of "Electric Music for Mind and Body", the band's 1967 Vanguard Records debut, Country Joe and the Fish joined the front ranks of the international psychedelic rock movement.The band's second album contained the rock version of "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag", one of the great anthems of the era.
In August 1968, on the spur of the moment, the infamous "Fuck Cheer" was invented to introduce the song at a performance in Central Park's Wolman Rink.
www.ci.berkeley.ca.us /vvm/about/joebio.html   (449 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Country Joe McDonald
Click on over to Country Joe's Place, as the site is called, and catch the latest "news flashes and acid flashes"; read a transcript of Joe's testimony at the infamous 1970 Chicago Seven trial; find a link to the Rag Baby e-zine.
McDonald's commitment to his counterculture ideals is the unifying theme in all these projects.
Contrary to his image, however, McDonald is not the kind of person who attends demonstrations or carries picket signs.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/04.14.04/country-joe-0416.html   (666 words)

  
 Country Joe Rock Music Memorabilia
Country Joe and the Fish was a rock/folk music band known for
folksinger, Country Joe McDonald qualifies as one of the best-known names from '60s rock still performing.
McDonald remains a thriving, working musician who travels the world and continues to sell records.
www.irocknroll.com /CountryJoe.html   (139 words)

  
 Philm Freax: Country Joe & the Revolution in Chile
Country Joe McDonald is in Chile to help Saul Landau and Raul Ruiz direct and produce a revolutionary film - or is it several films uncomfortably bundled into one?
Having arrived to the strains of Country Joe, Martin the CIA agent-cum-businessman and Simon the Fidelista make their respective ways to their hotel (the one and the same), and start making contacts.
In the furor of demonstration and counter demonstration the local (left-wing) priest is mowed down by cops - and Country Joe sings.
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 Q&A with Country Joe McDonald
They're from the sixties, and they're in their sixties---Country Joe McDonald and three of the four members of the classic Country Joe and the Fish line-up from 1966-'68 have reunited for a tour.
The Country Joe Band (CJB), as it is called is on tour.
The former members of Country Joe and the Fish-- -missing only guitarist Barry Melton, reportedly too busy with Public Defender duties in Yolo County, CA, to join---reunited for the first time since a one-off gig in 1994, and their 1977 "Reunion" album.
www.riprense.com /countryjoeq&a.htm   (1409 words)

  
 Most recent Country Joe McDonald All posts on MOG - MOG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
"Country" Joe McDonald (born Joseph McDonald, on January 1, 1942 in El Monte, California) was the leader and lead singer of the 1960s rock & roll group Country Joe and the Fish.
Country Joe McDonald set several of Service’s poems to music, and released an alubum of them back in the 70s, under the title War War War; it was reissued on CD but is long-since OP; last i saw there were two listed for sale through Amazon for right at $75 each.
Joe takes the poetry of Canadian Robert W. Service (probably best known these days for “The Cremation of Sam McGee” or “The Shooting of Dan McGrew”), who was an ambulance driver in World War One, sets them to simple acoustic 12-string tunes and sings them.
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 COUNTRY JOE McDONALD (AND THE FISH)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Country Joe and the Fish were the most overtly political band identified with the San Francisco Sound of the late 1960s.
The band also blended the populist folk music tradition (band leader Country Joe McDonald would release a Woody Guthrie memorial LP in the 1970s) with pronounced dada leanings.
McDonald decided to embark on a solo career at the outset of the 1970s.
www.shsu.edu /~lis_fwh/book/regional_styles/support/CountryJoe.htm   (309 words)

  
 Country Joe: Just An Old Folkie
The United States goes to war for the first time since Vietnam, and Country Joe McDonald releases his first album in over five years.
In fact, Superstitious Blues (Rykodisc), which features McDonald's old friend, Jerry Garcia, is probably the gentlest, most apolitical collection of tunes ever done by the musician who, in the 60s, founded one of the great, legendary San Francisco bands, Country Joe and the Fish.
One of the first examples of peace demonstrations broadcast by CNN about a week before war broke out was a small rally in San Francisco---with McDonald and his acoustic guitar smack dab in the middle.
www.riprense.com /CountryJoe.htm   (984 words)

  
 Freight and Salvage: Country Joe McDonald
World-renowned Berkeley troubadour, Country Joe McDonald, returns to our stage to introduce his new band and to raise funds for Easy Does It Disability Assistance, a local nonprofit that provides emergency attendant care and transportation for Berkeleyites with severe physical disabilities.
As a Vietnam-era sailor, folk singer, anti-war activist, rock music icon, advocate for environmental and veterans' causes, and a respected scholar of the history of nursing, Joe has been a substantial figure on the landscape of American culture for the past four decades.
Over the past few decades, Joe has continued to bring his music to audiences world-wide and has released more than 30 albums, while continuing to be a powerful advocate for the issues close to his heart.
www.thefreight.org /2006/0601-january/info_060118.html   (176 words)

  
 Country Joe McDonald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Country Joe and The Fish / Country Joe and the Fish
Woodstock (1970) (as Country Joe and the Fish)....
Revolution (1968) (as Country Joe and the Fish)....
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 Internet Archive Search: Country Joe McDonald Live   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Country Joe McDonald June 1, 1986 Seattle, WA 01.
Country Joe McDonald Live at The Mill on 2005-03-29 - Country Joe McDonald
Country Joe McDonald Live at The Borderline on 2005-03-30 - Country Joe McDonald
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 Country Joe McDonald
I'm a singer and songwriter, I used to be in Country Joe and the Fish, and I live in Berkeley, California.
Country Joe and the Fish's Electric Music for the Mind and Body is number ten.
Listen to Country Joe In Space, a virtual compilation of my science-fiction oriented songs.
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 eBay - country joe mcdonald, CDs, Records items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Country Joe McDonald 1971 COVER STORY Rolling Stone mag
Country Joe McDonald and The Fish 7 LP Lot
Country Joe McDonald - Paradise with an Ocean...
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 Vietnam Experience: Songs of Country Joe McDonald
This moving film brings us closer to the reality of Viet Nam by combining the emotional lyrics and music of Country Joe McDonald with compelling archival footage of the war.
McDonald is still anti-war, but now he's pro-warrior.
Against the stream of footage shot in Viet Nam and back home, McDonald's newer songs are binoculars on the war.
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 Country Joe McDonald Rock Music Memorabilia
This is an awesome picture that captures a moment in Rock N Roll History.
In fact, McDonald, was not only an anti-war protestor during the '60s, but also a Vietnam-era Navy
After 31 albums and more than a quarter century in the public eye as a folksinger, Country Joe McDonald
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 Grateful Dead Family Discography: Country Joe McDonald Discography
This is a discography of recordings by Country Joe McDonald.
It includes solo recordings released by Country Joe and recordings released by Country Joe & The Fish.
See the Country Joe web site for more information and to order CDs.
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 Country Joe McDonald : Carry On - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Country Joe McDonald : Carry On - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Carry On was Country Joe McDonald's first new album since 1991, but it continually harked back to his earlier work.
Blues and gospel also came into play, the latter especially playing into the album's elegiac tone.
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 YouTube - Country Joe McDonald - I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
I was a Country Joe McDonald fan back in the 1960s and saw him live.
Please take a page from Country Joe and becme activists and protest the illegal invasion of Irag and demand that those war criminals Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld get jailed?
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Country Joe McDonald - I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die
Country Joe McDonald & The Fish - Vietnam song
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 cjfishlegacy.com
Country Joe and The Fish is a registered service mark of Country Joe McDonald and Barry "The Fish" Melton.
Early Country Joe and The Fish photos including some very rare photos of the late drummer John Francis Gunning.
Many fans have posted their personal cell phone, digital camera and other source videos on Country Joe and The Fish, past and present.
www.cjfishlegacy.com   (223 words)

  
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McDonald proves to be an adept Guthrie interpreter on his debut solo album, recorded with the cream of Nashville session men.
John Wesley Harding suggested country with its textures and structures, but Nashville Skyline was a full-fledged country album, complete with steel guitars and brief, direct songs.
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