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Country Joe McDonald

ountry Joe McDonald was born in Washington, D. C., in 1942, but grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte, California. Joe's parents, Florence and Worden, had moved there after the War, World War II that is, when they began to have difficulties of a political kind. Suffice it to say, that Joe and his brother Billy and his sister Nancy were "red diaper babies". El Monte, in the fifties and very early sixties, was home to the El Monte Legion Stadium; through its doors passed every musical group and artist of the day. From gospel to R & B to rock and roll and country every great black artist played that hall when they played LA. Joe was influenced by all of them. Los Angeles at this time was one of the hotbeds of small independent record labels and they all got played on the radio. Whether it was from the front window of Dolphin's Record store or on KFWB, all this music was there. Joe listened to all of it. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, among his personal favorites were the Dixieland sides from Good Time Jazz; much of his music has been influenced by

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Joe McDonald fu il musicista politico che eredito` per una breve stagione il carisma che era stato di Bob Dylan e dei Fugs.

McDonald si trovo` nel posto giusto al momento giusto: la protesta nata con le marce pacifiste esplose nel 1964 nel campus di Berkeley, dall'altra parte della Baia di San Francisco.

McDonald, figlio di un'ebrea e di un comunista, e reduce da quattro anni di marine, si trasferi` nel 1962 a Berkeley e nel giro di tre anni divenne il portavoce sarcastico delle battaglie per i diritti civili. Era folksinger di mestiere, ma politico di passione. Fu sua l'idea dei "rag baby", sorta di comunicati musicali da distribuirsi ai suoi concerti, il primo dei quali usci` su EP nel 1965.

Il suo stile fondeva la polemica sardonica alla Woody Guthrie, la denuncia corrosiva di Bob Dylan e la satira dei Fugs con il sound ilare delle jug-bands. L'assunzione (nel 1965) di un complesso elettrico, i Fish (che nel gergo del Libretto Rosso di Mao significa "i rivoluzionari"), con il diciottenne prodigio Barry Melton alla chitarra e David Cohen a uno dei primi organi Farfisa,

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Country Joe McDonald straddles the two polar events of the 60s -- Woodstock and the Vietnam War. The first Country Joe and the Fish record was released in 1965, in time for the Vietnam Day Teach-In anti-war protest in Berkeley, California. He sang one of the great anthems of the era, I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag, to an audience of a half-million at the Woodstock Arts and Music Festival in 1969.

McDonalds music spans a broad range of style and content. He began his solo career with a collection of Woody Guthrie songs. He went on to produce a musical rendition of the World War I poems of Robert Service, a collection of country and western standards, Vietnam Experience in 1985, Superstitious Blues in 1991 with Jerry Garcia, and an album of songs about nursing in 2002. In 2007 he put together a song-and-spoken-word one-man show about Woody Guthrie, and followed it up with another about Florence Nightingale.

After 48 albums and more than four decades in the public eye as a folksinger, Country Joe McDonald qualifies as one of the best known na