Music for the body, mind, soul, and funny bone.

You don't have to be a Hawk or a Dove to appreciate the sacrifice of those who have gone before. I'm looking forward to a documentary debuting on The History Channel tonight on The Battle of Gettysburg. I've seen documentaries that glossed over the Battle of Gettysburg, but I think we're getting a deeper dive tonight. It'll take my mine off the gastly cancellation of Chicago Code by Fox. They can keep all kinds of crappy entertainment going year after year (I'm talking to you Amazing Race) and yet Chicago Code gets the shortest of leashes. I still love you [...]

Play the entire 25 track mix tape in order here: (!!!) This section of the mixtape has no particular theme, commonality between songs, or particular order that they should be played. This is where I am able to post my favorites that didnt quite fit anywhere else. Before I go further, all five of these posted artists are arguably some of the premier [...]

Larry Jon Wilson : Sheldon Church Yard [ purchase ] Country Joe and The Fish : Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine [ purchase ] Tony Joe White : Conjure Woman [ purchase ] It's true that in many rural areas of America magic has and likely always will be practiced to some degree. The 'roots' of magic have been credited to the Celts living between [...]

Already more than halfway through their unusual and expansive month-long project, folk-rock act Poor Bailey have delivered the goods when it comes to honest songwriting. The band has been releasing one song a day during the month of October to hype up the upcoming release of their full length album, Excerpts from the Happy Dead . Since their release, the songs have reached a level of depth, a maturation of texture, writing and delivery. If these songs are even remotely as enjoyable as the upcoming full length, it's safe to say that Excerpts from the Happy [...]
Joseph A. Morse, San Quentin Prison's Death Row, 1972. After nearly a decade of subsisting on valium, seconal, prison-made wine and a little heroin, I was introduced to LSD. My fellow condemned prisoners were a little reluctant to try the new chemical because of the gloomy environment, but I had practically been raised on death [...]

Dillard & Clark Out on the Side The Left Banke Foggy Waterfall I like the Band , I like the Byrds , I like Blue Rodeo , and if I'm hungover, I even like the Eagles , but really, there's not much of the nudie-suit cactus rock genre I can take. You take a step in one direction, it's Gram Parsons (okay); you take another step, and all of [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Exclusive Country Joe McDonald is best remembered for his performance with Country Joe and the Fish, at the original Woodstock. His iconic protest song 'I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag' and the band's X-rated performance of the 'Fish Cheer' have become touchstones of the festival. Spinner spoke with the singer, songwriter, author and archivist from his home in Berkeley, Calif. Can you explain what you'll be doing at [...]

I came across this record - the soundtrack for the 1971 movie Zachariah , which was billed at the time as the "first electric western." Do you remember that one? This movie, I believe, was one of the strange films that came out of Hollywood after Easy Rider virtually destroyed the old-school big-studio movie model in 1969. In the wake of that groundbreaking movie, filmmakers saw that there was a huge untapped market in the era's youth - so you had a lot of low-budget movies with avant-garde leanings ... and a lot of rock [...]

My sister is spending a lot of time away from home lately. My mom says it's that new job of hers, my dad isn't so sure. I don't care - today I was able to snap up two of her records, both by California music dudes who might have been pretty well-known back in the 1970s but are virtually forgotten today. The first record is Bright Sun Is Shining , by Barry "The Fish" Melton. This one is from 1970, and it was the first solo album by the guitarist from Country [...]

Is anyone else sick of this Woodstock nostalgia ? Boomers get over it. Sure there were some great performances, but the vast majority of people who attended and played Woodstock traded in their freewheeling hippie ways years ago. I mean, these are the people who elected Bush. Vietnam was a rallying cry and I bet some of these folks are all misty eyed when they see that Country Joe McDonald video. But where were these conscientious objectors on Iraq? Well, I guess it wasn't their turn.
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Video The wonders of modern technology let music lovers relive Woodstock by the dull gleam of a computer monitor, even if we (or even our parents) weren't able to experience the fabled festival first hand. It isn't the same on video, of course, but concerts haven't been the same since the 1969 event, either. So while we can't transport you back in time (The sights! The smells! The mind-altering substances!), we can collect some video highlights of Woodstock to celebrate this 40th anniversary of [...]
I as recently hipped to a YouTube music video by the Sons of Maxwell that takes aim at United Airlines, who damaged lead singer Dave Carroll's high-end Taylor guitar and callously refused to take responsibility, rejecting his claim for reimbursement.

While Luther Dickinson has been spending his off time from the NMAS as a member of the Black Crowes, his band mates brother Cody and Chris Chew have a side-project of their own - the Southern blues and boogie-rock band Hill Country Revue , that also features Ed "Hot" Cleveland (drums), Daniel Coburn (vocals/harp) and Kirk Smithhart (guitar/vocals). The band, who released their debut album Make a Move today, are set to hit the road later this month for a mix of festival appearances, club dates and two support slots for Dave Matthews Band that [...]
August 15 - 18, 1969, the dates of the original Woodstock Music and Arts festival in New York State. The most famous of all festivals, it happened on a farm in Bethel, New York. Before corporations ran the music biz, it was organized by four inexperienced promoters who were able to sign an amazing roster of then current rock acts -- Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish and others! The influence on music, arts, culture [...]
August 15 - 18, 1969, the dates of the original Woodstock Music and Arts festival in New York State. The most famous of all festivals, it happened on a farm in Bethel, New York. Before corporations ran the music biz, it was organized by four inexperienced promoters who were able to sign an amazing roster of then current rock acts -- Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish and others! The influence on music, arts, culture [...]
[auf der seite kann man sich an dieser stelle ein audio anhören] country joe & the fish - waltzing in the moonlight (auf dem album together von 1968) arne zank hat ein neues album gemacht bzw sein erstes eigentlich, sein erstes "richtiges", wenn man in solchen kategorien denken will, was ich katorsisch ablehne oder wie das heißt. zu diesem anlass kann man sein wirklich fantastisches tape DIE MEHRHEIT WILL DAS NICHT HÖREN, ARNE kostenlos herunterladen . wenn das kein grund zum feiern ist, weiß ichs aber auch nicht. [...]

Only hit up the closing minutes of my old flea market and still made some nice finds. One snag this time tho, I had Elephant Mountain by the Youngbloods in my hand ready to go but somehow lost it on the way back! Win some lose some I guess; all the sweeter when I nab it down the road. Mimi & Richard Fariña "Celebrations For a Grey Day" I knew about this record because of Richie Unterberger's Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers . It came with a CD [...]
Albert Hoffman (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008) RIP Country Joe & the Fish - The Acid Commercial (alternate download)

Country Joe and the Fish: Thursday [ purchase ] One of the moodier tracks from "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die," the Fish's followup to universally acclaimed "Electric Music for the Mind and Body," Thursday is prefixed with a freak folk LSD commercial. Submitted by Brendan of The Rising Storm .