If you send me a stamped, self-addressed envelope I will send you a photograph of myself at Woodstock including a reproduced autograph for free. Details.
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.
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.
Me and daughter Seven at the Cafe Mediterraneum around 1975. Photo by Craig Kolb.
Get info on my upcoming gigs and booking. The new Tribute to Woody Guthrie CD is in stock and available at the Country Store. The live version of War War War is there, too.
Sadly, Country Joe's Cafe and the Cafe de la Paz are closing, a victim of the economic downturn. Learn more here. The Open Mic Nights, however, will continue at a new venue -- more info here. See Sarah Palin as President. The world record for simultaneous guitar playing has been broken! Read the story from the San Francisco Chronicle. Watch a video. The 4th Annual Woody Guthrie Foundatrion Fellowship application period is open. More info here. Pete Seeger has been nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Traditional Folk Album, for his CD At 89. Pete won the 1996 Grammy in the same category for the album, Pete. There's a petition to nominate Pete for a Nobel Peace Prize. You can sign it here. You may not know that Pete was involved in the founding of the Clearwater environmental organization.
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. Aaron Sorkin, creator of the TV drama "The West Wing," is working with DreamWorks Studios on a screenplay about the Chicago Seven trial, to be directed by Steven Spielberg. (Read my testimony in the trial.) Filming had been scheduled to begin in March, but was delayed by the writers' strike and anticipation of a possible upcoming actors' strike. Meanwhile, Chicago 10, currently in release, treats the same subject with a combination of documentary footage and animation.
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be in Country Joe & the Fish, and
I live in 
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