Something Borrowed, Something New
1. ENTERTAINMENT IS MY BUSINESS from Into The Fray, 1982
2. WHO AM I? from Collector's Items, 1971
3. KISS MY ASS from the 1971 EP
4. FREE SOME DAY from the 1971 EP
5. STANDING AT THE CROSSROADS from On My Own, 1980
6. YOUR LAST FEW RECORDS JUST DIDN'T MAKE IT from On My Own, 1980
7. POWER PLANT BLUES from Childs Play, 1983
8. THINKING OF JOHN FAHEY New
9. SUNSHINE from Peace on Earth, 1984
1O. WAR HERO from Peace on Earth, 1984
11. MOURNING BLUES from Vietnam Experience, 1986
12. HERE I GO AGAIN from Into The Fray, 1982
13. HOLD ON IT'S COMING from Into The Fray, 1982
14. STARSHIP RIDE from Superstitious Blues, 1991
15. BLUES FOR MICHAEL from Superstitious Blues, 1991
16. CARRY ON from Carry On, 1994
I7. GET IT ALL TOGETHER from Into The Fray, 1982
From the sleeve notes by Alec Palao:
This compilation is drawn from the seven albums Country Joe McDonald has cut for Rag Baby, the imprint on which his earliest musical forays with Country Joe & the Fish appeared in the mid-1960s, and which was resurrected in 1980 by McDonald and Bill Belmont. After the dissolution of the Fish at the beginning of the 1970s, McDonald had recorded a string of albums for Vanguard and Fantasy, with varying degrees of critical and commercial success. Forever tagged as the rancorous politico of "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die," Woodstock and the F-U-C-K Fish cheer fame in the US, McDonald preferred to spend time in Europe and the rest of the world, where he was at least appreciated as much for his music as his message. The situation was no different when, by the end of the decade, his contract with Fantasy expired, so Joe began releasing records on Rag Baby that sold respectably enough on the continent for him to spend the best part of the l980s touring Germany. These varied from acoustic outings like On My Own to the rock-orientated Peace On Earth and Vietnam Experience, from the experimental humour of Child's Play to the rootsy basics of Superstitious Blues and Carry On. There was even an archival release, Collector's Items; The First Three EPs. But throughout the Rag Baby canon, no matter how far he strays from the public stereotype/straight jacket of Country Joe the radical, McDonald maintains his integrity, his compassion and his craft.
Compiled by Bill Belmont
Sleeve notes by Alec Palao
Package designed by Philip Lloyd Smee at Waldo's Design
Front cover photograph courtesy of Rag Baby
Transferred from original analogue master tapes
Mastered by Nick Robbins at Sound Mastering Ltd
The copyrights in these sound recordings are owned by Rag Baby and are licensed to Ace Records Ltd
(P) Rag Baby
(C) 1998 Ace Records Ltd
