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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".
Country Joe and the Fish members sporadically reconvene, most notably when the classic 1967 lineup recorded Reunion in 1977. [41] The lineup, except Melton, came together again as the Country Joe Band in 2004. In the same year, the group resumed touring, released the Barthol-penned single, "Cakewalk to Baghdad", and the live album Live in ...
Barry "The Fish" Melton (born June 14, 1947 [1]) is the co-founder and original lead guitarist of Country Joe and the Fish and Dinosaurs.He appears on all the Country Joe and the Fish recordings and he also wrote some of the songs that the band recorded.
Her original demo of "Mississippi Delta" was the version issued, but "Ode to Billie Joe" acquired a string arrangement by Jimmie Haskell, dubbed onto the original recording at Capitol. The day after the string session, Capitol's A&R team decided to make "Ode to Billie Joe" the A-side. [13] The single was released on July 10, 1967.
Joseph Charles Wilson IV (November 6, 1949 – September 27, 2019) was an American diplomat who was best known for his 2002 trip to Niger to investigate allegations that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase yellowcake uranium; his New York Times op-ed piece, "What I Didn't Find in Africa"; [1] and the subsequent leaking by the Bush/Cheney administration of information pertaining to the ...
Country Joe may refer to: Country Joe McDonald, lead singer of Country Joe and the Fish; Joe West (umpire), Major League Baseball umpire This page was last edited on ...
Bruce Barthol (November 11, 1947 – February 20, 2023) [1] was an American musician, singer and songwriter. Born at Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, California, he was the original bass player for the psychedelic rock band Country Joe and the Fish, from its inception through November 1968.
Country Joe and the Fish were originally formed in 1965 by Country Joe McDonald and Barry Melton as an acoustic folk/jugband duo. This embryonic version of the group, supplemented by Carl Shrager, Bill Steele and Mike Beardslee, recorded an initial EP in September of that year which was released as a "talking issue" of Rag Baby magazine a month later.