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A Tribute to Woody Guthrie
Country Joe McDonald

This two-disc set documents Country Joe's entire "Tribute to Woody Guthrie" show. It includes songs by Guthrie and others, readings from Guthrie's writings, and Joe's reminiscences of his own family. Recorded live at the Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco, on May 12, 2007.

"McDonald channels this wry, compassionate man’s wisdom without ever getting in the way, a refreshingly egoless performance by someone who remains as amazed by Guthrie as anyone." — Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, May 14, 2007

N E W ! War War War Live Country Joe McDonald Nine poems from Robert W. Service’s war-themed collection Rhymes of a Red Cross Man set to music and sung by Country Joe McDonald. Recorded live on July 7, 2007 at the 2nd annual “Our Way Home Peace Event and Reunion,” honoring US Vietnam War resisters and others in Castlegar, British Columbia. Live show includes an introduction by Country Joe explaining how the original Vanguard album came to be recorded. 1. Foreword 2. The Call 3. Young Fellow, My Lad 4. The Man from Athabaska 5. The Munition Maker 6. The Twins 7. Jean Desprez 8. War Widow 9. The March of the Dead RB1040 CD, each $15.00   How to Order

From Yukon News: An anti-war collaboration between a famed 60s counterculturalist and the Bard of the Yukon has recently resurfaced. Country Joe McDonald is thrilled with the piece, and hopes it continues to build a fan base. War War War is the American rock musician’s obscure 1970 album of Robert Service poetry put to music. It was recently re-recorded live at an outdoor festival in Castlegar, BC, honoring Vietnam War resisters. War War War was a commercial flop; the album only existed on vinyl for about 10 years. “We sold way less than a 100,000 copies,” said MacDonald. But for years, McDonald has received requests from fans looking to obtain a copy of the now-discontinued album. (A used copy of the record can cost upwards of $150 on Amazon.com.) Blocked from re-release by the original publisher, MacDonald’s 2007 recording was done to resurrect the music and bring it to a wider audience. Consisting mainly of poems from Service’s Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, the album is a powerful operatic journey throughout the different stages of war. Through nine acoustic songs, the album follows soldiers, munitions makers, refugees and grieving fathers. "The Man from Athabasca" is a haunting ballad about the journey of a northern Canadian trapper to the trenches of northern France. In one passage, the man regales French soldiers with stories of Canada while war rages around them. And I tell them of the Furland, of the tumpline and the paddle, Of secret rivers loitering, that no one will explore; … While above the star-shells fizzle and the high explosives roar.” "War Widow" is laden with typical Robert Service sarcasm: the war is praised for ridding an overpopulated society of young men. The album ends with "The March of the Dead," a poem imagining a parade of resurrected war dead crashing the jubilant celebrations of a Boer War victory celebration. The song is a fitting finale because, even with all the heroism and sacrifice of war, at the end “all you’ve got is a bunch of dead people.” From beginning to end, the album is “interesting and typical of the memories of people who experience war,” said McDonald, who has spent extensive time with Vietnam War veterans. A former military man himself, McDonald’s career has always sought to take anti-war stances from the perspective of the soldiers. Recorded in only two days, McDonald still sees the album as a masterwork from “on high.” “Just last year when I sang them all together … I thought, ‘man, this is great stuff, the most powerful anti-war musical piece I’ve ever heard in my life.’ That I had a part composing it is unbelievable,” he said. "I just did it because I was inspired, because it was fun, and I’m amazed that it’s (lasted this long)." -- Tristin Hopper

"The Vietnam Experience"
Directed by Daniel Keller and Country Joe McDonald

This DVD video uses the songs from the Country Joe CD Vietnam Experience synched to documentary footage of the Vietnam Era. The footage is all kinds: black and white, color, video, 16 mm, and larger. Songs included:

1. I Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag 2. Foreign Policy Blues 3. Agent Orange Song 4. The Girl Next Door (Combat Nurse) 5. Kiss My Ass 6. Secret Agent 7. Vietnam Veteran Still Alive 8. Vietnam Never Again 9. Mourning Blues 10. Welcome Home

Country Joe vocal and guitar, David Hayes bass and vocal, Barry Flast keyboards and vocal, Peter Walsh guitar, Mike Herbick drums and others.

The video was intended as an educational device and for that reason there is no Hollywood footage. Starting with recruitment footage the film moves through agent Orange spraying, booby traps, napalm drops, the Chicago Convention Riots, veterans' protests after the war, and welcome home parades. Film critic Judy Stone called it the "best of all the Vietnam War films."

Thinking of Woody Guthrie
Country Joe McDonald

From 1969, the first-ever Woody Guthrie tribute album. Recorded in Nashville with the same top country session men as Tonight I'm Singing Just for You.

1.Pastures Of Plenty 2.Talkin' Dust Bowl 3.Blowing Down That Dusty Road 4.So Long It's Been Good To Know Yuh 5.Tom Joad 6.The Sinking Of The Reuben James 7.Roll On Columbia 8.Pretty Boy Floyd 9.When The Curfew Blows 10.This Land Is Your Land

Pastures of Plenty This Land is Your Land in RealAudio

Paradise with an Ocean View
Country Joe McDonald

From 1975, this album features the popular "Save the Whales!"

1.Tear Down The Walls 2.Holy Roller 3.Lost My Connection 4.Save The Whales! 5.Oh, Jamaica 6.Lonely On The Road 7.The Limit 8.Tricks 9.Breakfast For Two

Best of Country Joe McDonald
Country Joe McDonald

Highlights from the Vanguard years.

1. Pastures Of Plenty 2. Roll On Columbia 3. Ring Of Fire 4. Six Days On The Road 5. Mara 6. Hold On, It's Coming 7. Air Algiers 8. Joe's Blues 9. The Man From Athabaska 10. The Call 11. Living In The Future In A Plastic Dome 12. Fantasy 13. Movin' 14. St. Tropez 15. Sweet Marie 16. Makin' Money In Chile 17. Memories 18. It's Finally Over

Vanguard Visionaries: Country Joe McDonald
Country Joe McDonald

A unique assortment of songs from the Vanguard years.

1.Talkin' Dust Bowl 2.This Land Is Your Land 3.Fantasy 4.Sexist Pig 5.Ring of Fire 6.Sweet Marie 7.The Call 8.Entertainment Is My Business 9.I'm on the Road Again 10.Six Days on the Road

Natural Imperfections
Country Joe McDonald and Bernie Krause

Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Country Joe and the Fish

The groundbreaking first album from the band that invented psychedlic rock.

1. Flying High 2. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine 3. Death Sound Blues 4. Happiness Is a Porpoise Mouth 5. Section 43 6. Superbird 7. Sad and Lonely Times 8. Love 9. Bass Strings 10. The Masked Marauder 11. Grace

I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die
Country Joe and the Fish

The album that introduced "the Rag."

1. The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag 2. Who Am I 3. Pat's Song 4. Rock Coast Blues 5. Magoo 6. Janis 7. The Bomb Song 8. Thought Dream ( 9. The Bomb Song (Reprise) 10. Acid Commercial 11. Thursday 12. Eastern Jam 13. Colors for Susan

Together
Country Joe and the Fish

1. Rock and Soul Music 2. Susan 3. Mojo Navigator 4. Bright Suburban Mr. & Mrs. Clean Machine 5. Good Guys/Bad Guys Cheer / The Streets of Your Town 6. The Fish Moan 7. The Harlem Song 8. Waltzing in the Moonlight 9. Away Bounce My Bubbles 10. Cetacean 11. An Untitled Protest

Here We Are Again
Country Joe and the Fish

1. Here I Go Again 2. Donovan's Reef 3. It's So Nice to Have Your Love 4. Baby, You're Driving Me Crazy 5. Crystal Blues 6. For No reason 7. I'll Survive 8. Maria 9. My Girl 10. Doctor of Electricity

C.J.Fish
Country Joe and the Fish

The fifth and last Country Joe and the Fish album, featuring the Woodstock lineup.

1. Sing Sing Sing 2. She's a Bird 3. Mara 4. Hang on 5. The Baby Song 6. Hey Bobby 7. Silver and Gold 8. Rockin' Round the World 9. The Love Machine 10. The Return of Sweet Lorraine 11. Hand of Man

The Life and Times of Country Joe & the Fish
Country Joe & the Fish

A comprehensive collection of songs from the Vanguard years.

1.I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag 2.Bass Strings 3.Flying High 4.Porpoise Mouth 5.An Untitled Protest 6.Who Am I 7.Grace 8.Waltzing in the Moonlight 9.Death Sound Blues 10.Janis 11.Sing Sing Sing 12.Superbird (Tricky Dick) 13.Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine 14.Marijuana 15.Rock and Soul Music/Love 16.Crystal Blues 17.Masked Marauder 18.Love Machine 19.The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag

The Collected Country Joe & the Fish
Country Joe & the Fish

Another collection of Vanguard material.

1.Superbird 2.Bass Strings 3.Section 43 4.Flying High 5.Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine 6.Death Sound Blues 7.Porpoise Mouth 8. Sad and Lonely Times 9.The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag 10.Rock Coast Blues 11.Janis 12.Eastern Jam - Country Joe & the Fish, Barthol, Bruce 13.Good Guys/Bad Guys Cheers - Country Joe & the Fish, Melton, Barry 14.Rock & Soul Music - Country Joe & the Fish, Barthol, Bruce 15.Here I Go Again 16.Maria 17.Crystal Blues 18.Rockin' Round the World

Vanguard Visionaries: Country Joe & the Fish
Country Joe & the Fish

The best of the band from the Vanguard years.

1.The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag 2.Death Sound Blues 3.Sing Sing Sing 4.Marijuana 5.Grace 6.Janis 7.Superbird (Tricky Dick) 8.Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine 9.The Masked Marauder

Live! Fillmore West 1969
Country Joe and the Fish and friends

Seventy-seven minutes of music featuring Joe McDonald (guitar and vocals), Barry Melton (guitar and vocals) David Cohen (guitar and keyboard), Jack Casady (bass), and Gary "Chicken" Hirsh (drums). "Donovan's Reef" is an extended jam with the above lineup plus Steve Miller (guitar and harmonica), Jerry Garcia (guitar), Jorma Kaukonen (guitar), and Mickey Hart (drums).

1.Introduction/Rock and Soul Music/Love 2.Here I Go Again 3.It's So Nice to Have Your Love 4. Flying High 5. Doctor of Electricity 6. Donovan's Reef Jam

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Chet Helms Tribal Stomp
Various Artists

The 2005 memorial concert for Chet Helms held in Golden Gate Park captured in a 5-camera HD shoot. Three DVDs of the concert, one DVD of interviews and crowd happenings, and two full-length CDs of the show. There is also a poster and photo gallery and a biography of Chet. With Paul Kantner and friends, Blue Cheer, Country Joe, Barry “the Fish” Milton, Lidia Pence, Vince Welnick, David LaFlamme, Canned Heat, Members of Steve Millers band with Squid Vicious, Nick Gravenites, Annie Sampson, Zero, Quick Silver Gold, Narda Michael Wladen, The Charlatans, Terry Haggerty, Jerry Miller, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Rowen Brothers, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Roy Rodgers, Natural Act, Jeff Blackburn, James Gurley, Faith Petrice, Roy Blumenfeld, Stephin Gaskin, Michael McClure, Wavy Gravy.
[The DVDs are in Region 1, USA. Most new DVD players play Region 1 even though they are in a different region.]

Summer of Love 40th Anniversary
Various Artists

The 2007 Summer of Love 40th anniversary concert held in Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park captured in a 7-camera HD shoot. This four-disc set contains 127 minutes of 5.1 Dolby video on two DVDs and 79 minutes of stereo audio on 2 CDs. With Moby Grape, Jefferson Starship, Taj Mahal, Ray Manzarek, Canned Heat, Brian Auger, the Charlatans the Jerry Miller Band, and dozens of others, including Country Joe. Interviews, photo and poster gallery, and tons of extras.
[The DVDs are in Region 1, USA. Most new DVD players play Region 1 even though they are in a different region.]

Mission Rock
Gold

www.countryjoe.com Country Joe McDonald These 20 songs and instrumentals span 30 years and were performed direct to DAT recorder at home. Almost all songs were written by Country Joe, and are performed solo. The initial edition of 300 numbered CDs will be sold only here at the Country Store. 1. Ashkenaz (guitar and harmonica instrumental) 2. Summer Of Love 3. Thank The Nurse 4. Camouflage 5. Thinking Of John Fahey (slide guitar instrumental) 6. Gunshot Wound (a cappella) 7. Nothin Means Nothin 8. Clone Song 9. Charlie Don't Surf 10. Warriors of Humanity 11. Remembrance (guitar and harmonica instrumental) 12. What Will I Leave Behind 13. Plastic Bag 14.All My Love In Vain 15. Combat Assault 16. I'm Gonna Rock 17. Bells Of Freedom 18. Taps (instrumental) 19. Rainbow Stew 20. We Shall Overcome "I'm Gonna Rock" (excerpt) "Thinking of John Fahey" in RealAudio RB1032 CD, each $10.00   How to Order

From Relix magazine: After a five-year absence from the recording scene, Country Joe McDonald returns .... [www.countryjoe.com] is a solo studio album that features 20 cuts, which mix deft acoustic guitar/harmonica instrumentals with some new songs. As usual, world observations and social commentary are a big part of McDonald's music. He reflects on the '60s in "Summer of Love," and sings of the horrors of war in "Gunshot Wound" and "Combat Assault." Other highpoints are his emotive rendition of Fred Greco's "Warriors of Humanity" and his own "I'm Gonna Rock." -- Mick Skidmore

At the Borderline
Country Joe McDonald

This two-disc set documents Country Joe's live performance -- both songs and anecdotes -- at London's Borderline on April 18, 2006.

Disc 1
1. Introduction by John Roberts 2. Starship Ride 3. Breakfast For Two 4. Crossroads 5. Joe talks “The Folk Song Singer” 6. Rock Coast Blues 7. Return of Sweet Lorraine > Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine 8. Joe talks “The Story of Sweet Lorraine” 9. All My Love In Vain 10. For No Reason 11. Joe talks “Twiggy and Val Doonican” 12. Here I Go Again 13. Joe talks “That Yamaha Guitar” 14. Jean Desprez
Disc 2
1. Support The Troops 2. Joe talks “Freedom and Democracy” 3. Save The Whales 4. Section 43 5. Submarine 6. Yankee Doodle 7. Moviola 8. I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag 9. John Roberts talks 10 .Hold On It’s Coming 11.Joe talks “Tea and Coffee in Italy” 12. Who Am I

Thank the Nurse
Country Joe McDonald

From the liner notes:

"In 1981 while attending a conference on Post Vietnam War problems of Vietnam Veterans Lynda Van Devanter, Vietnam War Nurse and author of Home Before Morning, The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam, accused the audience of 'ignoring women in the military.' I felt I was certainly guilty of that in spite of the fact that I was ex-military myself. I promised Lynda I would write a song for her. I did, it was 'The Girl Next Door.' I began to research nursing and started with the life of the English woman credited with inventing 'professional nursing' as we know it today, back in the Crimean War, 1854-1856: Florence Nightingale.
I wanted to write a Florence Nightingale song but it was years to come. As a break from reading about the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale and the Vietnam War I took to reading a book about the famous American woman who was a Civil War Nurse and the person credited with starting the American Red Cross. This turned into the song 'Clara Barton.' Then one day lo and behold out of blue came my Florence Nightingale song 'The Lady with the Lamp.'
I now had three 'war nurse songs.' I realized that I was in a rut. I felt bad that my brother was a nurse practitioner and my wife a Labor and Delivery nurse but I had no non-military nurse song. I was struck with the fact that nurses are seldom given thanks for the work that they do. Nursing is often just taken for granted. So after much thought and effort out came 'Thank the Nurse.' 'Thank the Nurse' has been very well received and has opened some very interesting doors for me in the nursing world.
I have always wanted to advocate for people who seemed to be 'taken for granted' and seemed to have no voice of their own in the public. So it has been a very interesting and rewarding experience these last 20 years studying about nursing and working on my Florence Nightingale web site. Over the years I have sung my songs and talked about Florence Nightingale at various Nursing events and slowly requests have built up for me to make up a CD of the 'Nursing Songs.'"

1. The Girl Next Door 2. The Lady with a Lamp 3. Clara Barton 4. Thank the Nurse

Classics
Country Joe McDonald

Covering Country Joe's years at Fantasy Records.

1. Coyote 2. Love is a Fire 3. Breakfast for Two 4. Oh, Jamaica 5. Baby, Baby 6. Copiapo 7. Do-Wop-Oh 8. Blood on the Ice 9. Space Patrol 10. U.F.O. 11. Get It Together 12. Save the Whales!

In the Pocket
David Bennett Cohen

Classic piano blues from Country Joe Band member David Bennett Cohen. David plays keyboard and guitar on twelve tunes written by himself and others, with help from Terry Wetmore on drums, Everett Boyd on bass, and Dave Rimelis on violin.

1. Mo's Boogie 2. Hannah's Aunt 3 .American Beauty 4. Blue Silk 5. Crawfish Jubilee 6. Louisiana Nocturne 7. Treasures of the Heart 8. Lost in the Shuffle 9. The Queen of Hearts 10. The Keystone Strut 11. Rockin' Pneumonia 12. Georgia (On My Mind)

"Mo's Boogie" "American Beauty" "Blue Silk" "Lost in the Shuffle" in RealAudio

The Country Joe Songbook #1

I remember the disappointment I felt when I could not play the music I bought or it did not sound like the music of my favorite musician. Janet Smith and I have taken great care to make a book for the intermediate musician that sounds exactly like the way I perform the songs. 141 page spiral bound book with lyrics, guitar chords, and piano music with chords for 23 songs.

1.The Baby Song 2.Blood on the Ice 3.Breakfast for Two 4.Colors for Susan 5.Coyote 6.Entertainment is My Business 7.Flying High 8.Here I Go Again 9.Hold On, It's Coming 10.Holy Roller 11.I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag 12.Janis 13.Kiss My Ass 14.Living in the Future 15.Maria 16.Not-So-Sweet-Martha Lorraine 17.Oh, Jamaica 18.Peace on Earth 19.Rockin' All Around the World 20.Save the Whales 21.Thunderbird 22.Who Am I 23.Wilderness Trail

Country Joe and Me
Ron Cabral, with an afterword by Country Joe

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The Art of Modern Rock Mini #1: A-Z
The Art of Modern Rock Mini #2: Poster Girls
Dennis King

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Woody Guthrie Artworks
Steven Brower & Nora Guthrie

Woody Guthrie was an untrained but prolific artist. This beautifully produced volume from Rizzoli illustrates hundreds of his works in full color

"Facsimile pages from sketch books, calendars, lyric sheets and correspondence are lovingly recreated. The works are presented with corresponding biography by Brower which adds significance to the work. Along with a forward by Billy Bragg and a Guthrie-esque afterword by Jeff Tweedy, this is a truly magnificent publication which goes a long way to demystifying the life of Woody Guthrie." --Sing Out

An Old Guy Who Feels Good
Worden McDonald

An anecdotal book by Joe's dad with an introduction from Country Joe McDonald. Includes sheet music for "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag." Out of print; this may be your last chance for this collector's item.

"Mac is a helluva storyteller." --Pete Seeger
"It's already a classic." --Fred Cody, Cody's Books, Berkeley
"There are great horse stories too, as well as sheep and cattle tales." --Bruce Haldane, Grassroots

Country Joe & the Fish Postcard

German postcard by Alain Dister showing Country Joe and the Fish in New York in 1967.

Gift Certificates

Good for merchandise at the Country Store and Florence Nightingale's Gift Shoppe. Specify 1: Face value of certificate in US dollars 2: Recipient (i.e. "James Wong," "The bearer") 3: Donor (i.e. "Juan Valdez," "Santa").

Woodstock Photograph and Guitar

An 8¼ × 12½ fine art print of the famous Woodstock moment by legendary rock photographer Jim Marshall, matted and signed on both the print and the matte. Plus, a Yamaha FG-150 acoustic guitar just like the one I played at Woodstock, no longer made. Both the photo and the guitar can be autographed as you request. $500 for the Marshall photo, $1000 for the guitar. (Purchaser must pay for shipping and handling.) E-mail for more information. More about the Woodstock moment.

Serial no. 20219370. Advice on buying Yamaha guitars.

Original Copies of the First EP
Country Joe & the Fish / Peter Krug

Original Copies of the Second EP
Country Joe & the Fish

EP#2 cover, first version

EP#2 cover, second version

The second Rag Baby EP was a 7-inch 33 1/3 EP in a black-and white sleeve, recorded on June 6, 1966. There were 1000 copies of the first cover version, and an unknown number of the second.

Side 1: "Thing Called Love" and "Bass Strings"
Side 2: "Section 43"
Joe McDonald: vocals, electric guitar, harmonica
Barry Melton: vocals, electric guitar
David Cohen: electric guitar, Farfisa organ
Bruce Barthol: bass, harmonica
John Francis Gunning: drums
Paul Armstrong: tambourine, maracas

First cover design (group shot in middle). $1800.
Second cover design (group shot at top, Country Joe & the Fish on bottom). $1500.

Original Copies of the Third EP (Resist)
Country Joe McDonald

The San Francisco Oracle Facsimile Edition

All twelve issues of the legendary Haight-Ashbury newspaper from the "Summer of Love" era are reproduced in full color on archival paper in this 440 page hardbound 11" x 14" volume with slipcase. The Collector's Edition was limited to 200 copies. It is signed and numbered by the editor, Allen Cohen, on the title page, and by Rick Griffin on the reproduction of his cover (right). Also included are separate full-color reproductions of all twelve covers on heavy stock suitable for framing. Fewer than 50 copies of the Collector's edition remain.
Exclusive Backroom Offer: Copies purchased from the Backroom will have the full-page ad for the first Country Joe & the Fish album that appeared in Issue 8 signed by Country Joe McDonald and the artist, Tom Weller.