Friday On My Mind 60: I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die Rag
Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 13:00 on 26 August 2011
For various reasons I was listening to “California Saga” from the Beach Boys’ Holland album this week, which, yes, is a 1970s recording. Referencing, among other things, John Steinbeck and his “travellin’s with Charley” it also mentions that at a festival, “Country Joe will do his show,” and I thought “Hmm.. I’ve not done that one.”
I don’t think Country Joe and the Fish are remembered for more than the one song but that song certainly caught a mood.
It is the quintessential musical protest against the war in Vietnam.
As this is a live version – Joe performing at a festival, Woodstock no less – it is not suitable for work.
Country Joe McDonald: Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die Rag
Tags: California Saga, Country Joe and the Fish, Country Joe McDonald, Friday On My Mind, Holland, John Steinbeck, The Beach Boys, Viet Nam, Vietnam
jackdeighton
13 March 2026 at 12:00
No apologies for repeating this song from earlier in the category. Country Joe died a few days ago. This one’s a studio recording, though.
Country Joe and the Fish: I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag
Joseph Allen (Country Joe) McDonald: 1/1/1942 – 7/3/2026. So it goes.
Friday on My Mind 60. RIP Country Joe – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton
13 March 2026 at 20:03
[…] apologies for repeating this song from earlier in the category. Country Joe died a few days ago. This one’s a studio recording, […]