It was Country Joe McDonald himself. He estimated that the Friday, Dec. 22, show would be his 3,000th concert, and he was selling CDs for $15 during the opening act outside the Mission District ...

Country Joe McDonald, whose 1967 anti-Vietnam War protest song “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die” made him a voice of his generation, is fixin’ to retire. Country Joe McDonald at Monterey ...

COUNTRY JOE MCDONALD, musician, Berkeley resident and the father of two teenagers. THEN: His "Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag" was an unintentional anthem in Vietnam, and McDonald, who served in ...

One of those questioners, at least some of the time, is the man who wrote it: Country Joe McDonald of Berkeley, Calif. "I agonize over that question almost every time I sing it," he said yesterday.

Country Joe McDonald arrived at Woodstock a couple of days before he and his band, The Fish, were set to play. He wanted to sit on stage and watch the other acts perform. But one of the bands ...

AUSTIN, TEXAS – It was an indelible moment of the 1960s – Joe McDonald of Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock singing “Fixin’ to Die Rag,” his mordant anti-war anthem, preceded by a ...

It was an indelible moment of the 1960s — Joe McDonald of Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock singing “Fixin’ to Die Rag,” his mordant anti-war anthem, preceded by a call-and-response in ...

Country Joe McDonald and former Lovin’ Spoonful frontman John Sebastian will no longer play the beleaguered Woodstock 50, five decades after both musicians performed at the original 1969 festival.

One of the '60s' greatest antiwar moments nearly didn't happen. Country Joe McDonald would tell you utter lack of interest characterized the reception he received for his impromptu acoustic folk ...

Country Joe McDonald, whose 1967 anti-Vietnam War protest song “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die” made him a voice of his generation, is fixin’ to retire. Country Joe McDonald at Monterey ...