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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 $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

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

Take Me Home: A Sampler of American Artists for Peace
Various artists

Natural Imperfections
Country Joe McDonald and Bernie Krause

Live in Berkeley
The Original Country Joe Band

The first CD from the newly reconstituted Country Joe Band (Bruce Barthol, David Bennett Cohen, Gary "Chicken" Hirsh, and Country Joe McDonald) has twelve of the old tunes plus the new "Cakewalk to Baghdad." Recorded on July 29, 2004 at the historic Freight and Salvage Coffee House.

1. Entertainment Is My Business 2. Janis 3. Not-So-Sweet Martha Lorraine 4. Section 43 5. Rock and Roll Again 6. Grace 7. Masked Marauder 8. Who Am I? 9. Cakewalk to Baghdad 10. Death Sound Blues 11. Bass Strings 12. I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag 13. Save the Whales

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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

"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

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!

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

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

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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.

Mission Rock
Gold

Oregins -- SF 1970
Gold

Nine songs recorded in the studio at Golden State Recorders in San Francisco in 1969 and 1970, plus eight songs from a live show at the Fillmore West on March 3, 1970. Country Joe produced "No Parking" and "Summertime" and also plays on the disc.

1. No Parking 2. High on Love 3. Righteous Road 4. Conquistadores 5. Heavy 6. When I Saw You 7. PSB 8. Filet of Soul 9. Summertime 10. When I Saw You (live) 11. Filet of Soul (live) 12. Colores (live) 13. PSB (live) 14. Conquistadores (live) 15. No Parking (live) 16. Fried Neck Bones (live) 17. Heavy (live)

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

At the Piano
David Bennett Cohen

"I was fortunate enough to have seen Professor Longhair, Otis Spann, Meade Lux Lewis and other wonderful piano players perform live. They influenced my playing, and, I hope, by this record, to pay tribute to them." -- from the liner notes.

1. The Professor at Large 2. Lost in the Shuffle 3. On the Run 4. Blue Silk 5. The Queen of Hearts 6. St. Louis Blues 7. The Professor's Elixir 8. Blues for Sara 9. Unconditional Love 10. The Spice of Life

Incredible Poster Deal The Edmonton, Masse, and Berkeley posters, a $50.00 value, together for $40.00. A1071 Three posters, shipped in a mailing tube $40.00   How to Order

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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Peace on Earth Tote Bag

Paper or plastic? Just say neither! Rainbow-colored peace sign with the words "Peace on Earth" in English and kanji characters. 20×14½-inch jumbo bag is 100% cotton canvas with extra-long natural web handles.

Woodstock Photo

Classic Jim Marshall photo of Country Joe at Woodstock. Glossy 8×10 incorporates Joe's signature. FREE! Just send a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request to Joe McDonald, P.O. Box 7064, Berkeley, CA 94707, USA. (The rates have gone up for envelopes the size of 8×10 pictures so remember to have at least 80 cents postage on your SASE.)

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").