Country Joe & The Fish
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Country Joe McDonald: Incredible! Live! Country Joe! (Vanguard)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Cream, June 1972
I like the coffee and I like tea,I like the sweetness that you give to me, Hey woman set your mind at rest,Home cookin' still ...
List of articles in the library
Interview by Greg Shaw, Mojo Navigator, 22 November 1966
Present at this interview were Country Joe and the Fish, who consist of Joe McDonald (vocals), Barry Melton (lead guitar), David Cohen (guitar and organ), ...
New Albums from the Doors, Country Joe & the Fish et al
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 1967
The Doors: A Fascinating New West Coast Sound ...
Monterey Pop Festival: The Hip Homunculus
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 29 June 1967
"The West is the best: Get here and we'll do the rest!" — The Doors ...
Profile by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, November 1967
HOW GREAT can a group be when one well-known rock writer labels his copy of their new Vanguard LP, "This record is to be played ...
New Singles including The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Buffalo Springfield
Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 18 November 1967
STILL THE BEATLES OLD SOUL AND FEELING ...
Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 25 November 1967
NICK JONES SORTS OUT THE NEW U.S. SOUNDS ...
Captain Beefheart — electric magic!
Report by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 6 January 1968
CAUTION: ELECTRICITY can be hazardous to health — but Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band are as Safe As Milk. And London is due for ...
Albums from Van Dyke Parks, Nancy Sinatra and Country Joe & the Fish
Review by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 13 January 1968
SONG CYCLE (Warner Bros-7 Arts) Van Dyke Parks. 'Vine Street', 'The All Golden', 'Pot Pourri' plus eight other tracks. ...
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 1968
Springfield Plays Farewell Concert ...
Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, October 1968
HERE WE are, talking to ourselves again, still waiting for the new releases by the Rolling Stones, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Doors, the Byrds, ...
Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 3 October 1968
IT WAS Saturday afternoon and the Algonquin Hotel smelled of old marble and mahogany. In his suite, Country Joe MacDonald sat on a sofa and ...
20 Revolutionary Singles, as requested
Letter by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 28 October 1968
25 FLORENCE TERRACE, FALMOUTH, CORNWALL TELEPHONE: FALMOUTH 1840 23rd October 1968 ...
An Interview with Country Joe McDonald
Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, December 1968
I HAVE BEEN an admirer of Country Joe McDonald and the Fish ever since I first heard them years ago on tape at a friend's ...
Country Joe & The Fish: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 9 December 1968
Country Joe's Fish Make Heads Swim To Electric Sounds ...
Overview by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 24 December 1968
"AN ELECTRIC caterwauling of power... burning it, flashing it, whirling it down some arc of consciousness, the sound screaming up to a climax of vibrations ...
Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, January 1969
HULLABALOO'S Paul Nelson goes Fishing with the very opinionated Mr. McDonald — ...
Country Joe & the Fish, Led Zeppelin: Fillmore West, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 11 January 1969
Impressive New Rock Group ...
Candid Conversation With... Country Joe
Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, February 1969
Part Three of the Country Joe McDonald interview. ...
Country Joe McDonald: "Janis asked me to write a song about her."
Interview by Paul Nelson, Circus, March 1969
Part Four of the Country Joe McDonald interview. ...
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 11 April 1969
INTERVIEWING COUNTRY Joe McDonald was an escapade I embarked on with fear in my heart, butterflies in my stomach and a copy of How to ...
The Janis Joplin Revue, Country Joe & the Fish: Cobo Hall, Detroit
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 1969
Joplin Revue: Music, Yes; Excitement, No ...
Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 27 May 1969
Gods, bishops, priests and worshippers ...
Barry Melton — Lead Guitarist, Country Joe & The Fish
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, July 1969
As told to Jim Delehant ...
My Favorite Records by Barry Melton of Country Joe & The Fish
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1969
THERE'S A label called the Origin Jazz Library. One album in the collection is called The Great Jugbands. It's loaded with pure beautiful music. It's ...
Country Joe & The Fish: Here We Are Again
Review by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 9 August 1969
BERKELEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN the Freak Capital of the Western world. The university of California has long been noted for its political militants, and the ...
New albums from the Doors, Country Joe, Johnny Cash, Creedence, CS&N and Blind Faith
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 16 September 1969
Finding a new faith: GEOFFREY CANNON reviews pop music ...
Country Joe And The Fish: Here We Are Again (Vanguard)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Fusion, 3 October 1969
COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH are certainly unique in American rock. By the time their first album came out they had really passed their peak ...
Sons of Champlin, Country Joe & the Fish, Area Code 615: Fillmore West, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 13 February 1970
Strong Debut by Nashville 9 ...
Kent Aftermath: Teen Turmoil Poison At B.O.
Report and Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 25 June 1970
SAN FRANCISCO — Lou Rhode, a student at San Francisco City College, is a clerk at Tower Records, and wears an "Out Now" peace button ...
Various artists: Woodstock (Atlantic: 2663 001)
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 17 July 1970
Update, 2020. Woodstock. The name has many meanings. There's Woodstock the town where Bob Dylan and the Band lived once. But the main resonance is ...
Interview by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, December 1974
Mick Gold interrogates Country Joe and indulges in some Fishy nostalgia ...
Country Joe McDonald: Paradise With An Ocean View
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 24 January 1976
Gimme a W, gimme an H, gimme an A, gimme an L... ...
Country Joe McDonald: Shed A Tear In Your Beer For The Fish Cheer
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 7 February 1976
COUNTRY JOE said: "I'd like to make some money, buy a Cadillac, make pop music as in popular, radio rock 'n' roll." ...
Barry Melton: The Tale of a Fish
Profile and Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, March 1976
STRANGE AS IT MAY seem to all of you who may imagine me as a contemporary of [Pete] Frame and [John] Tobler, when the early ...
Country Joe MacDonald: The Essential Country Joe McDonald
Review by John Tobler, New Musical Express, 21 August 1976
ALTHOUGH THERE have been three compilations of his work with the Fish, this is the first collection covering Country Joe's seven solo albums. ...
Chet Helms: Rockin' back to the 60s scene
Profile and Interview by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 29 September 1978
CHET HELMS was the great visionary of the innocent early days of San Francisco's rock music and hippie scene. ...
Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, March 1994
ONE FIGURE straddles the two polar events of the '60s – Woodstock and the Vietnam War – and that's Country Joe McDonald. In fact, such ...
Review by Mark Cooper, MOJO, February 1996
COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH are doomed to be best remembered for that old crowd-pleaser they churned out at Woodstock in August, 1969. No matter ...
Country Joe McDonald: No Ordinary Joe
Interview by Robert Sandall, The Independent, 13 December 2002
THERE'S LITTLE ABOUT the small, stocky frame of the 60-year-old Country Joe McDonald that would lead one to pinpoint him as a firebrand political activist ...
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, Record Collector, October 2009
40 years on, Woodstock's epochal celebration of music, peace and unleashed hedonism is being marked with an unprecedented deluge of audio and visual releases. KRIS ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sheila Weller, Vanity Fair, July 2012
It was billed as "the Summer of Love", a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco ...
see also Barry Melton
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