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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.
2012 is the 100th birthday of Woody Guthrie and the 11th year of my Tribute To Woody Guthrie. I will probably mostly be doing the Woody tribute all year long. It also will be the year of the release of the DVD of the show. We filmed it on September 17 at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage, with Greg Dewey on washboard and drums, Suzy Thompson on fiddle and Cajun accordion, and Blake Richardson on washtub and upright bass. Pete Slauson shot it with 5 hi-def cameras and 24-track digital audio.
Music from the forthcoming DVD of my Tribute To Woody Guthrie is now available for download here.
I have been working on a new album to be titled Time Flies By. Co-produced by Tim Eschliman and myself, it will have 25 songs from solo to full band covering a time period of 30 years of song writing. I will have more on that project later. It will be released sometime in the next six months and available here at my Country Store and as a download and some other places.
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.)
A video snippet of me backstage at Woodstock has surfaced.
My son Devin has bought Berkeley's beloved Mr. Mopps' toy store. See pictures of the official grand opening. You can visit Mr. Mopps' on the web and on Facebook.
The David Bennett Cohen (California) Band, featuring Roy Blumenfeld, Bruce Barthol, and Greg Douglass, will play at the Art House Gallery in Berkeley on Saturday, October 15.
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 Hugh Thompson Foundation has been formed in honor of the hero of My Lai. It will devote itself to issues of veterans' welfare and military ethics.
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
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.
Just about every actress in Hollywood has been mentioned for the Janis Joplin part in a biopic, with the possible exception of Betty White. Now Amy Adams is alleged to have landed the role in Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can, tentatively scheduled for a 2012 release.
The DreamWorks Studios film about the Chicago Seven trial, originally to be directed by Steven Spielberg, is now penciled in for 2012 with Ben Stiller at the helm. Read my testimony in the trial.
More Wuzzup...
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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:
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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
Would you like to rent a one-half scale
replica of Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC? It is 240
feet long and five feet high and fits in a trailer. Contact the Lake County Vetz, (847) 336 3825, 535 N. Pioneer Court, Waukegan, IL 60085-3259.
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 2012 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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