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An Interview with Country Joe McDonald

Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, December 1968

I HAVE BEEN an admirer of Country Joe McDonald and the Fish ever since I first heard them years ago on tape at a friend's house. Since then, the group has progressed through three albums — Electric Music for the Mind and Body, I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-to-Die, and Together — each one, if not better than the last, certainly deserving of a permanent place in rock's young and growing history. I talked with Joe at some length recently, and this is part of what was said.

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