Country Joe & The Fish – Reunion
“Reunion,” released in 1977, constituted a reunion of the 1967 version of Country Joe and the Fish. They wisely didn’t just dip into the old psychedelic well, because that really wasn’t likely to go...
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Country Joe & The Fish – The Life and Times of Country Joe & The Fish
Vanguard put out a Country Joe and the Fish Greatest Hits album in 1969, but following the group’s final album (for a while, anyway), they put out a very nice two-disc compilation, The Life...
Country Joe & The Fish – C.J. Fish
It’s amazing how quickly the air can go out of a band. Country Joe and the Fish started as a folkish duo (with Barry Melton performing the function of The Fish) in 1965, went...
Country Joe & The Fish – Here We Are Again
An apt title for a fourth album, no? As I mentioned, this was one of the first two Country Joe & The Fish records I got (as far as I can remember — it’s...
Country Joe McDonald — Hold On It’s Coming
Going through the bins at the Forever Changes pop-up, and what the hell is this? A Country Joe record I’ve never seen before? Indeed. At first I thought it was a movie soundtrack –...
Country Joe & The Fish – Together
Their third album, released in 1968, is apparently somewhat ironically titled. It was begun as a Country Joe-less effort by just The Fish, but then Joe McDonald rejoined the band. Still, most of the...
Country Joe & the Fish — I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die
My kid can tell this story better than I can, but my short version of it is: they were taking AP US History. In the course of covering the Vietnam War, their teacher played...
Country Joe & The Fish – Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Country Joe & the Fish are a tangled chronology for me. I know pretty much exactly when I first started buying their records, but I don’t quite know why. I know roughly when I...
James Cotton — High Compression
This is another recent find (2020) from a Friday afternoon run to MaTones up in Collegeville. That’s what passes for entertainment for us in the pandemic – a very occasional trek to a record store...
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