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 elcome to my home on the web. I'm a singer and songwriter, I used to
be in Country Joe & the Fish, and
I live in Berkeley,
California, Planet Earth.
 Get info on my upcoming gigs and booking.
My new 2 CD set Time Flies By is out. Co-produced by Tim Eschliman and myself, it has 25 songs from solo to full band covering a time period of 30 years of song writing. Preview the songs and musicians, then place your order at the Country Store.
{Time Flies By features my song "Gunshot Wound." Watch a video of the song, and visit my Fun with Gunz page.}
The DVD of my Tribute To Woody Guthrie at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage is now available here and at the Country Store. Individual tunes from the show can be downloaded here as MP3s.
Country Joe and the Fish's Electric Music for the Mind and Body has only been available in a remixed version since the 80s. Now England's Ace Records has issued a new CD package with the original mix. Read a review from Uncut Magazine.
There's an interview with me in James Stafford's blog Why It Matters
Check out a bunch of us old guys reminiscing about the Fillmore East in the New York Times.
The current Rock Cellar Magazine features an interview with me about protest songs and other topics.
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 at the Health Education Center of Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, California, I was presented an award for "Special Recognition as a Friend of Nursing" by Sigma Theta Tau International, Nu Xi At-Large Chapter during their 20th anniversary celebration. During the event I gave a 30-minute version of my "Tribute to Florence Nightingale and Nursing." And showed a special 15-minute video about her life. The video may now be seen on the front door of my Tribute To Florence Nightingale.
"A Ride with Matt" is a documentary film about Huntington's Disease, intended to raise awareness and to generate support and funding for research to ameliorate or altogether eradicate Huntington’s -- the disease that killed Woody Guthrie. Check it out.
According to new data released Wednesday, more than 1,500 Americans have lost a leg or arm in combat in Iraq or Afghanistan, and hundreds have suffered the amputation of multiple limbs. Read a report from the Huffington Post.
Glass sculptor Peggy Pettigrew Stewart is casting the faces of many Woodstock musicians, including mine, to be reproduced in glass. We're going to be posting pictures of the process here as it goes along.
Read an interview with me on Woody Guthrie and other things in the Huffington Post.
Joan Bridge Baez, Joan Baez' mom, has died. Read an obituary.
Michael Murphy has written a great book about Woodstock titled Goodbye Emily to be released by Koehler Books on January 20, 2013. The Kindle version is available now. Meanwhile he is blogging about Woodstock and has me as first featured artist. Check it out.
Richard Epstein's Critical Thinking (3rd ed., published by Wadsworth Cengage) is a pretty widely assigned textbook. And it uses as an example my statement, "blaming soldiers for war is like blaming firefighters for fire." Read the section.
There's been a sad incident at Berkeley's beloved Ashkenaz dance hall.
The incredible Bear Family Records box set Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961-2008, consisting of 13 CDs and a 300+ page book, is out. I consulted on and contributed to this massive project. You can buy it at the Country Store. Check out a review at Allmusic, another at Military.Com, another from New Zealand, and another from NPR. The set was named number 9 on The Nation's Progressive Honor Roll 2010. (People interested in this topic might like to know that La Salle University's Vietnam discography is now available online.)
Bill Mankin has written a thoughtful history of rock festivals.
My son Devin has bought Berkeley's beloved Mr. Mopps' toy store. Check out pictures from Mr. Mopps' 50th birthday party. You can visit Mr. Mopps' on the web and on Facebook.
Mark Kapner, keyboardist with Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock, hosts Swing Out New Hampshire, a Lindy Hop dance camp annually in September.
The City of Berkeley is continuing to work on the bronze plaque commemorating Berkeley's casualties in World War II. There is a now revised list of names. If you know of someone from Berkeley who died in that war, please check the list to make certain that person's name is on it.
ethics.
Fan Jake Brutman has started an on-line petition calling for the induction of Country Joe and the Fish and Canned Heat into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You can sign it here.
Bobby Roth's film Berkeley, featuring 10 Country Joe and the Fish songs, is available on DVD from Amazon.
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RICHARD P. "RICHIE" HAVENS
January 21, 1941 - April 22, 2013
The opening act at Woodstock. Read an obituary.
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I have put together a fifty-minute "Tribute To Florence Nightingale And Nursing" using spoken word and song. I have tried to tell the story of the Lady With The Lamp and my interest in her life in an entertaining and educational way. The listener will gain much new information about the founder of modern nursing from her own words and the words of experts on her life and my songs about her and nursing and my own words. If you are interested in having me come and perform this tribute please e-mail me. Read a story about the show from NurseWeek, and another about my performance at Samuel Merritt University.
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Here are some videos of me folks have put up:
...or listen to fan tapes of my live shows from the Internet Archive.
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A biography
A timeline -- listing my performances and other events
Movies, TV, and stage
G.I. Joe -- me in the service
Look at my secret FBI file
Read my testimony at the Chicago Seven trial
About Woodstock
A discography
Lyrics and album notes
"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" -- everything you want to know about the song and much, much more!
The story of the notorious Fish Cheer.
Hear some early recordings of my old group, the Berkeley String Quartet.
My earliest musical collaborator was Blair Hardman, and we recorded an album in '65, The Goodbye Blues.
My guitars.
Listen to Country Joe In Space, a virtual compilation of my science-fiction oriented songs. Available only in cyberspace!
Looking for a particular CD? Here's the scoop on all the titles.
Joe's Jukebox
War music
The Great Springfield Pig Roast
Vietnam and war news
Vietnam veteran-related links
Fun with Gunz!
Music and psychedelic links
Animal/ecology links and news
Pot news
Berkeley links
A 2013 Country Joe appointment calendar, in Acrobat format.
A Sixties Scrapbook
Amazing stories that folks have sent me.
"Country Joe collects dolls!?" Yeah, what's it to ya? See my nurse doll collection.
The attic, where we store old junk.
My site dedicated to the accomplishments of Florence Nightingale
My record company's site, <Rag Baby .com>, featuring the Rag Baby On-line Magazine
Country Joe & the Fish
"Wildman" Dave Diamond's Country Joe & the Fish fan page
Barry "The Fish" Melton Web | Facebook
David Bennett Cohen
Bruce Barthol
Gary "Chicken" Hirsh
Mark Kapner
ED Denson Web | Facebook
Zone Recording Studio (Sonoma County) -- Blair Hardman's studio
The Jabberwock
Berkeley's Vietnam Vets' Memorial
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