The 'Fish' Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
1970 · Cotillion SD3-500 · Berkeley, California
- Artist
- Country Joe McDonald
- Title
- The 'Fish' Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
- Release
- Woodstock
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Cotillion # SD3-500
- Format
- LP · Soundtrack
- Language
- English
- Country
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Country Joe McDonald
- Genre
- Rock · Psychedelic Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Notes
Live recording from Country Joe McDonald's solo set at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, Bethel, New York, August 1969; side B1 of the 3-LP soundtrack Woodstock (Cotillion SD 3-500, 1970), credited to Country Joe McDonald and introduced by the "Fish" cheer.
About the artist
Born 1 January 1942, Washington, D.C.; died March 2026. Singer and songwriter, founder of Country Joe & The Fish (Berkeley, California, 1965) and writer of I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die-Rag; performed the song solo at Woodstock in August 1969.
Themes
From the release Woodstock