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{{short description|American musician (born 1942)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Country Joe McDonald
| image           = Countryjoe 79 crop.jpg
| image_size      =
| caption         = McDonald performing at [[Parr Meadows]] 1979
| birth_name      = Joseph Allen McDonald
| alias           = Country Joe
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1942|01|01}}
| death_date      =
| instrument      = Vocals, acoustic guitar
| birth_place     = Washington, D.C.
| occupation      = Singer, songwriter, musician, political activist
| genre           = {{hlist|[[Alternative country]]|[[Country music|country]]|[[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]]|[[country rock]]|[[Folk music|folk]]|[[psychedelic rock]]|[[acid rock]]}}
| years_active    = 1959–present
| label           = {{hlist|[[Vanguard Records]]|One Way Records|[[Fantasy Records]]|[[Rykodisc]]|[[Shanachie Records]]|Rag Baby Records}}
| website         = {{URL|http://countryjoe.com/}}
}}

'''Joseph Allen "Country Joe" McDonald''' (born January 1, 1942)<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=1558}}</ref> is an American singer/songwriter, musician, film composer and the lead singer and co-founder of the 1960s [[psychedelic rock|psychedelic folk-rock]] group [[Country Joe and the Fish]].<ref name=BDP>Richard Brenneman, [http://www.berkeleydaily.org/article.cfm?archiveDate=04-16-04&storyID=18679 "Country Joe McDonald Revives Anti-War Anthem"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927234105/http://www.berkeleydaily.org/article.cfm?archiveDate=04-16-04&storyID=18679 |date=September 27, 2007 }}, ''[[Berkeley Daily Planet]]'', April 16, 2004, accessed July 18, 2007.</ref> 

Since the group's breakup in 1971, McDonald has performed as a solo artist and continued to musically espouse his political views through his original songs.

== Early life and early career ==
McDonald was born in [[Washington, D.C.]], and grew up in [[El Monte, California]], where he had moved with his parents, Florence and Worden McDonald.<ref>"Patriots: the Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides", Christian G. Appy, p. 196.</ref> 

His father was the son of a [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] minister of Scottish heritage. Born in Oklahoma, and raised on a farm a 100 miles from [[Woody Guthrie]]'s birthplace of Okemah, Worden worked for a telephone company and, as a young man, traveled the country riding the rails, working odd jobs.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-02-21 |title=Country Joe rocks on for Woody Guthrie |url=https://www.southwhidbeyrecord.com/news/country-joe-rocks-on-for-woody-guthrie/ |access-date=2025-11-18 |website=South Whidbey Record |language=en-US}}</ref> His mother, Florence Plotnick,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1989-07-01 |title=Florence McDonald, 73, Berkeley Radical (Published 1989) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/01/obituaries/florence-mcdonald-73-berkeley-radical.html |access-date=2025-11-18 |language=en}}</ref> was the daughter of [[Russians|Russian]] Jewish immigrants and served for many years as the City Auditor of [[Berkeley, California]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jstandard.com/index.php/content/print/9415/ |title=The Jewish Standard |publisher=Jstandard.com |date=August 14, 2009 |access-date=2014-04-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105135122/http://www.jstandard.com/index.php/content/print/9415/ |archive-date=November 5, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.countryjoe.com/cjb.htm |title=Country Joe McDonald, The Country Joe Band |website=Country Joe's Place |access-date=19 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cjfishlegacy.com/meltoneightmiles.html |title=meltoneightmiles |publisher=Cjfishlegacy.com |access-date=2014-04-19}}</ref> In their youth, both were [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]] members and named their son after [[Joseph Stalin]], before renouncing the cause.<ref>"Patriots: the Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides", Christian G. Appy, pp. 195–196.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Red Diaper Babies |url=https://apnews.com/article/e4fe9d63e8564a2f0c11adfa842f162c |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230712063519/https://apnews.com/article/e4fe9d63e8564a2f0c11adfa842f162c |archive-date=2023-07-12 |access-date=2023-07-12 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>

In high school McDonald was student conductor and president of the marching band.<ref>"Patriots: the Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides", Christian G. Appy, p. 196.</ref> At the age of 17, he enlisted in the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] for three years and was stationed in Japan. After his enlistment, he attended [[Los Angeles City College]] for a year. In the early 1960s, he began [[busking]] on [[Telegraph Avenue]] in [[Berkeley, California]].<ref name=BDP/> He played the Berkeley String Quartet and the Instant Action Jug Band with future bandmate [[Barry Melton]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jug Bands |url=https://acousticmusic.org/research/history/musical-styles-and-venues-in-america/jug-bands/ |access-date=2025-11-18 |website=Acoustic Music |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Paterson |first=Beverly |date=2024-08-15 |title=Barry Melton on Country Joe and the Fish, Woodstock – and That Chant |url=https://somethingelsereviews.com/2024/08/15/barry-melton-country-joe-and-the-fish-woodstock/ |access-date=2025-11-18 |website=Something Else! |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Breznikar |first=Klemen |date=2015-02-15 |title=Country Joe and the Fish {{!}} Interview {{!}} Joe McDonald |url=https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2015/02/country-joe-and-fish-interview-with-joe.html |access-date=2025-11-18 |website=It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1965, he performed with [[The Fugs]] and [[Allen Ginsberg]] in a chemistry lab at UC Berkeley.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Fugs - Concord |url=https://concord.com/artist/the-fugs/ |access-date=2025-11-18 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Breznikar |first=Klemen |date=2015-02-15 |title=Country Joe and the Fish {{!}} Interview {{!}} Joe McDonald |url=https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2015/02/country-joe-and-fish-interview-with-joe.html |access-date=2025-11-18 |website=It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Music career==
[[File:CountryJoeMcDonaldKralingen1970.jpg|thumb|Country Joe McDonald (Kralingen, 1970)]]
[[File:SF Sounds - AES Historical session 2012.jpg|thumb|"Legendary Artists: Sounds of San Francisco" at an [[Audio Engineering Society]] convention in 2012. Left to right: [[Mario Cipollina]], [[Peter Albin (musician)|Peter Albin]], [[Joel Selvin]], McDonald]]
McDonald has recorded 33 albums and has written hundreds of songs over a career spanning 60 years. In 1965, he and [[Barry "The Fish" Melton]] co-founded [[Country Joe & the Fish]] which became a pioneer [[psychedelic rock]] band with their eclectic performances at the [[Avalon Ballroom]], the [[the Fillmore|Fillmore Auditorium]], the 1967 [[Monterey Pop Festival]], and both the [[Woodstock|1969 original]] and [[Woodstock Reunion 1979|1979 reunion]] Woodstock Festivals.

His best known song, [[The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag|''The Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag'']] (1965), is a [[black comedy]] [[novelty song]] about the [[Vietnam War]], whose familiar chorus --''"One, two, three, what are we fighting for?"''<ref name="pc42">{{Gilliland |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19801/m1/ |title=Show 42 – The Acid Test: Psychedelics and a sub-culture emerge in San Francisco. [Part 2] |show=42}}</ref> is well-known amongst the [[Woodstock]] generation and [[Vietnam veteran]]s of the '60s and '70s. McDonald wrote the song in about 20 minutes for an anti-Vietnam War play.<ref>"Patriots: the Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides", Christian G. Appy, p. 199.</ref> The ''Fish Cheer'' was the band performing a [[call-and-response]] with the audience, spelling the word "FISH", followed by McDonald yelling, ''"What's that spell?"'' twice, with the audience responding, and then, the third time, ''"What's that spell?"'' followed immediately by the song. The ''Fish Cheer'' evolved into the ''"Fuck Cheer"'' after the Berkeley [[Free Speech Movement]]. The cheer appeared on the original recording of ''"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag"'', right before the song on the [[LP album|LP]] of the same name. The cheer became popular and the crowd would enthusiastically spell out F-I-S-H when the band performed live. During the summer of 1968 the band played on the [[Schaefer Music Festival]] tour.<ref name="fish">Country Joe McDonald, [http://www.countryjoe.com/cheer.htm "That Notorious Cheer"], accessed October 10, 2007.</ref> [[Gary "Chicken" Hirsh]] suggested before one of the shows to spell the word "[[fuck]]" instead of "fish". Although the crowd loved it, the management of the [[Schaefer Beer]] Festival did not and kicked the band off the tour for life. ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' then canceled a previously scheduled appearance by the band, telling them to keep the money they had already been paid in exchange for never playing on the show.<ref name="fish" /> The modified cheer continued at most of the band's live shows throughout the years, including Woodstock and elsewhere. In [[Worcester, Massachusetts|Worcester]], Massachusetts, McDonald was arrested for obscenity and fined $500 for uttering "fuck" in public.<ref>cited in [[Jacques Attali]]'s ''[[Noise: The Political Economy of Music]]'' citing ''Pop-music/Rock'' by [[Philippe Daufouy]] and [[Jean-Pierre Sarton]] (Champ Libre, 1972).</ref>

One of his solo albums, the 1973 [[Vanguard Records|Vanguard]] LP ''Paris Sessions'', was reviewed by [[Robert Christgau]] in ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981), in which he said: "Amazing. The man (repeat: man) has written [[feminist]] songs that are both catchy and sensible. Despite the real/honest prison poem and the silly, outdated record fan routines, his best in about five years."<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: M|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=M&bk=70|access-date=March 7, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>

[[File:DIG13875 jjg-062.jpg|thumb|right|McDonald at the [[LBJ Library]] in 2016]]
In 2003 McDonald was sued for [[copyright infringement]] over his signature song, specifically the "One, two, three, what are we fighting for?" chorus part, as derived from the 1926 early [[jazz]] classic "[[Muskrat Ramble]]", co-written by [[Kid Ory]]. The suit was brought by Ory's daughter Babette, who held the copyright at the time. Since decades had already passed from the time McDonald composed his song in 1965, Ory based her suit on a new version of it recorded by McDonald in 1999. The court, however, upheld McDonald's [[Laches (equity)|laches]] defense, noting that Ory and her father were aware of the original version of the song, with the same questionable section, for some three decades without bringing a suit. In 2006, Ory was ordered to pay McDonald $395,000 for attorney fees and had to sell her copyrights to do so.{{cn|date=October 2025}}

In 2004, McDonald regrouped with three of the original members of Country Joe and the Fish ([[Bruce Barthol]], [[David Bennett Cohen]], and Gary "Chicken" Hirsh) and they toured the United States and the United Kingdom as the "Country Joe Band".

In 2005, McDonald joined a larger protest against California Governor [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s proposed budget cuts at the California State Capitol Building. Later in 2005, political commentator [[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] compared McDonald to Cuban President [[Fidel Castro]], remarking on McDonald's involvement in [[Cindy Sheehan]]'s protests against the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|Iraq War]].<ref>''The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly'', October 19, 2005.</ref>

In 2015, McDonald (with assistance from [[Alec Palao]]), formed The Electric Music Band; the intention of the group was to perform the early psychedelic material of the early career of [[Country Joe And The Fish]]. The band has performed 
[[Electric Music for the Mind and Body|Electric Music For The Mind And Body]] in its entirety, and band members include Palao, [[the Rain Parade]]'s Matt Piucci and [[Derek See]] of [[the Chocolate Watchband]]

In 2019, McDonald was scheduled to play on Woodstock's 50th Anniversary festival, which was cancelled after negotiations between partners failed.

== Personal life ==
[[File:Country Joe and Robin Menken wedding.jpg|thumb|Photo from Country Joe's 1968 marriage to Robin Menken]]
McDonald was married to Kathe Werum from 1963 to 1966. 

McDonald has noted that his girlfriend at the time, [[Janis Joplin]], showed much anger for breaking up with her to be with Robin Menken but asked him to write a song about her; the result was "Janis".<ref name=pc42/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.countryjoe.com/autobio.htm|title=Country Joe McDonald, An Autobiography|work=countryjoe.com}}</ref><!-- https://www.songfacts.com/facts/country-joe-the-fish/janis -->

On 31 March 1968, McDonald married Robin Menken,<!-- 
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In 1968, Menken gave birth to the couple's first daughter, Seven Anne McDonald, in San Francisco. Seven had a career as a TV [[child actor]] in the late 1970s and early 1980s,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seven McDonald {{!}} Actress, Producer, Additional Crew |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567998/ |access-date=2025-11-16 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref><!-- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567999|title=Seven McDonald|work=IMDb --> managed [[Johnny Depp]]'s [[Viper Room]] nightclub and the [[alternative rock]] band [[Smashing Pumpkins]] in the 1990s,<ref name="sevenlinkedin">{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/seven-mcdonald-97918185|title=Seven McDonald|work=LinkedIn}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.read24seven.com/bio.html |title=Bio |publisher=Read24seven.com |access-date=2014-04-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105134929/http://www.read24seven.com/bio.html |archive-date=November 5, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> and wrote for ''[[Details (magazine)|Details]]'', ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'', ''[[LA Weekly]]'' and ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'' magazines in the 1990s and 2000s.<ref name="sevenlinkedin" /> Seven was the subject of and inspiration behind his song "Silver and Gold".<ref name="Cabral"/> 

Seven's name was the inspiration behind the character Six on Blossom, cited by Don Reo on PeopleTV special Blossom Cast Reunion aired 2017, timestamp 10:07-10:33. Don's son went to school with Seven, Don asked his son if she would be cool with his naming a character Seven, Seven said no, so it was either Six or Eight.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVdKNk6xRLA&list=WL&index=11 | title='Blossom' Reunion ft Mayim Bialik, Joey Lawrence, Jenna von Oÿ & More! (2017) &#124; PEOPLE | website=[[YouTube]] | date=May 22, 2022 }}</ref>

McDonald has four other children, Devin (b. 1976) and Tara (b. 1980) from his marriage to Janice Taylor, and Emily (b. 1988) and Ryan (b. 1991) from his marriage to Kathy Wright.<ref name="Cabral"/>

McDonald lives in [[Berkeley, California]].<ref name="CountryJoesPlace">{{cite web|title=Fixin' to Retire|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/15/country-joe-mcdonald-fixin-to-retire//|website=Mercury News|date=July 15, 2017 |access-date=27 Aug 2021}}</ref>

==Discography==
{{See also|Country Joe and the Fish#Discography}}

=== Studio albums ===

*''[[Thinking of Woody Guthrie]]'' (1969, Vanguard 6546)
*''Tonight I'm Singing Just for You'' (1970, Vanguard 6557)
*''Hold On It's Coming'' (1971, Vanguard 79314)
*''[[War War War]]'' (1971, Vanguard 79315) - #185 U.S. Billboard<ref>{{Cite web |title=Country Joe & The Fish |url=https://elpee.jp/artist/Country%20Joe%20&%20The%20Fish/ |access-date=2025-07-13 |website=elpee.jp |language=en}}</ref>
*''Paris Sessions'' (1973, Vanguard 79328)
*''[[Country Joe (album)|Country Joe]]'' (1974, Vanguard 79348)
*''Paradise with an Ocean View'' (1975, Fantasy 9495) - #124 U.S. Billboard<ref>{{Cite web |title=Country Joe & The Fish |url=https://elpee.jp/artist/Country%20Joe%20&%20The%20Fish/ |access-date=2025-07-13 |website=elpee.jp |language=en}}</ref>
*''Love Is a Fire'' (1976, Fantasy 9511)
*''Goodbye Blues'' (1977, Fantasy 9525)
*''Rock N Roll from Planet Earth'' (1978, Fantasy 9544)
*''Leisure Suite'' (1979, Fantasy 9586)
*''On My Own'' (1981, Rag Baby 1012)
*''Child's Play'' (1983, Rag Baby 1018)
*''Peace on Earth'' (1984, Rag Baby 1019)
*''Vietnam Experience'' (1986, Rag Baby 1024/25)
*''[[Superstitious Blues]]'' (1991, Rag Baby 1028)
*''Carry On'' (1995, Rag Baby 1029)
*''www.countryjoe.com'' (2000, Rag Baby 1032)
*''[[Time Flies By]]'' (2012, Rag Baby 1041)<ref>{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p103837/discography}}: Discography</ref>
*''50'' (2017, Rag Baby 1042)

=== Live albums ===
*''Incredible! Live!'' (1972, Vanguard 79316) Live album, #179 [[Billboard 200|US]]<ref name="Whitburn">{{cite book | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Top LPs, 1955–1972 | year = 1973 | publisher = Record Research | page = 37 | url = https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstoplp00whit/page/37/mode/2up | access-date = November 4, 2025}}</ref>
*''Into the Fray'' (1981, Rag Baby 2001) Live in Germany
*''Eat Flowers and Kiss Babies'' Live with Bevis Frond (1999, Woronzow 33)
*''Country Joe Live at the Borderline'' (2007, Rag Baby 1038)
*''War, War, War (Live)'' (2008, Rag Baby 1040)<ref>[http://www.answers.com/topic/country-joe-mcdonald Answers.com], Discography</ref>
*''A Tribute to Woody Guthrie'' (2008, Rag Baby 1039)

=== Soundtracks ===

*''[[Quiet Days in Clichy (1970 film)|Quiet Days in Clichy]]'' (Soundtrack) (1970, Vanguard 79303) 5 original songs

=== Collaborative albums ===

*''Crossing Borders'' with M.L. Liebler (2002, Rag Baby 1034)
*''Natural Imperfections'' with Bernie Krause (2005, Rag Baby 1037)
*''[[Bear's Sonic Journals: Sing Out!]]'' (2024, Owsley Stanley Foundation) – includes a live solo performance by McDonald

=== Compilation albums ===

*''Essential Country Joe McDonald'' (1976, Vanguard 85/86)
*''Animal Tracks'' (1983, Animus UK FEEL 1)
*''Classics'' (1989, Fantasy 7709)
*''Best of Country Joe McDonald: The Vanguard Years (1969–1975)'' (1990, Vanguard 119/20)
*''Something Borrowed, Something New (The Best Of)'' (1998, Rag Baby 1030)
*''A Reflection on Changing Times'' (2003) Italy-only rerelease of early Vanguard albums
*''Vanguard Visionaries: Country Joe McDonald'' (2007, Vanguard 73171)

== Filmography ==

=== Actor ===
* ''[[¡Qué hacer!]]'' (1970) as Country 
* ''[[Gas-s-s-s]]! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It'' (1970) as AM Radio
* ''[[Zachariah (film)|Zachariah]]'' (1971) as a band member, Cracker
* ''[[More American Graffiti]]'' (1979) as Country Joe and the Fish
* Armistead Maupin's ''[[Tales of the City (1993 miniseries)|Tales of the City]]'' (TV series) (1993) as Joaquin<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567710/#actor|title = Country Joe McDonald|access-date = September 25, 2014|website = IMDB}}</ref>

=== Documentary ===
McDonald and his band [[Country Joe and the Fish|Country Joe & The Fish]] were the subject on a film called "How We Stopped The War" (1969) directed by Oscar nominated writer/editor [[David Peoples|David Webb Peoples]] (''[[Unforgiven]], [[Blade Runner]], [[12 Monkeys|Twelve Monkeys]]'').<ref>{{Citation |title=How We Stopped the War |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291251/ |access-date=2025-11-18}}</ref> They also appeared in "Revolution" (1968).<ref>{{Citation |title=Revolution |date=1968-05-17 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063503/ |access-date=2025-11-18 |publisher=Robert J. Leder Company, Omicron Films}}</ref>

McDonald is featured in numerous documentaries including''You Say You Want a Revolution'' (2019) from the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] exhibit of the same name <ref>{{Citation |title=You Say You Want a Revolution |date=2019-10-06 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12150570/ |access-date=2025-11-18 |publisher=V&A Museum}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=About You Say You Want a Revolution? Exhibition · V&A |url=https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/about-the-revolutions-exhibition |access-date=2025-11-18 |website=Victoria and Albert Museum |language=en}}</ref>, ''[[Cover Your Ears]]'' (2024) produced by ''[[Prairie Coast Films]]'' and directed by ''[[Sean Patrick Shaul]]'', discussing music censorship, <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18296562/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk | title=Cover Your Ears }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=CherryPicks |url=https://www.thecherrypicks.com/films/cover-your-ears/ |access-date=2025-07-13 |website=www.thecherrypicks.com}}</ref> and ''Sweet Blues: A Film About Michael Bloomfield'' (2013), <ref>{{Citation |title=Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield |date=2013-10-05 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3264110/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_14 |access-date=2025-11-18 |publisher=Ravin' Films}}</ref>and ''[[Janis: Little Girl Blue]]'' (2015).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Country Joe McDonald {{!}} Actor, Composer, Music Department |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567710/ |access-date=2025-11-18 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.cjfishlegacy.com CJFishlegacy.com]
*[https://archive.org/details/CountryJoeMcDonald Live Music Archive] Country Joe's section of archive.org's free live concert recordings.
*{{IMDb name|567710}}
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