If you send me a stamped, self-addressed envelope I will send you a photograph of myself at Woodstock with a hand-signed autograph for free. (Stamps only, no meter strips.)
I will gladly hand-sign anything you send if you include a check for $20 US made out to Joe McDonald. You are responsible for the packaging and the postage, both to me
and the return packaging and posting. Send to: Country Joe McDonald, P.O. Box 7064, Berkeley, California 94707-0158.
Opening reception for the "Soundtrack" exhibit on October 8. The show runs through April 1. More photos.
Get info on my upcoming gigs and booking. My new CD titled simply 50 is out. Preview the songs, notes, and musicians, and order your copy from the Country Store. Read a review. And another review. I put on a show at the San Francisco County Jail for Heroes' Voices, an organization that does music and poetry events for inmate veterans. Check it out. There's an interview with me up on the Grateful Web. I was at the LBJ Presidential Library for the Vietnam War Summit. Read recaps at its website, or see video here.
Alec Palao interviewed me at the Berkeley Historical Society on May 15th as part of its upcoming October 2017 exhibit
"Soundtrack to the 60s: The Berkeley Music Scene." See the video. There's a New York Times piece commemorating the 50th anniversary of the album version of "Fixin'-to-Die."
Read journalist Eric Margolis's take on "The Vietnam War: A film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick." I have not watched the series ... and Christpher Koch's piece sums up most of the reasons why. Here's yet a third view from Anh Lee. For factual background on the war, there's Julian Bonds' comic book from 1967.
Learn about the Woodstock 50th anniversary events getting underway.
A lawsuit is claiming that Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" is in the public domain. Read about it. The UCSF School of Nursing is planning to archive my Tribute to Florence Nightingale website so that its information will be saved for posterity. (But the site will still be available in its current location.) They are also taking over my collection of Nightingale memorabilia. Read an interview with me by the UCSF archivist.
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.
My son Devin has bought Berkeley's beloved Mr. Mopps' toy store. You can visit Mr. Mopps' on the web and on Facebook.
A biography
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 
Here are some videos of me folks have put up:
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