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Country Joe McDonald: No Ordinary Joe

Robert Sandall, Independent, The, 13 December 2002

THERE'S LITTLE ABOUT the small, stocky frame of the 60-year-old Country Joe McDonald that would lead one to pinpoint him as a firebrand political activist of Berkeley's radical campus set and one of the pioneers of Sixties acid rock. Yet Country Joe is a legend, one of the leading lights of the psychedelic San Francisco music scene.

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