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Collector's Item: First Three EPs

Country Joe & The Fish

Initial release : 1980

Rag Baby

Tracks collected from the 3 Rag Baby EPs that were released between 1965 and 1971. About half the material on these EPs was by Country Joe & The Fish. This material has been released a number of times. Uncertain when the first collected release was. Details given here are for a European release of the album.

Tracks

  • I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag (Take 1) (McDonald)
  • I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag (Take 2) (McDonald)
  • Superbird (McDonald)
  • (Thing Called) Love (Barthol/Cohen/Gunning/McDonald/Melton)
  • Bass Strings (McDonald)
  • Section 43 (McDonald)
  • Fire in the City (Krug)
  • Johnny's Gone to the War (Krug)
  • Kiss My Ass (McDonald)
  • Tricky Dicky (McDonald)
  • Free Some Day (McDonald)
Musicians

This material is collected from 3 EPs. The musicians involved on each of the tracks are as follows.

I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag (both takes) and Superbird are by Country Joe & The Fish;

  • Country Joe McDonald - guitar, harmonica, vocals
  • Barry Melton - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
  • Carl Shrager - washboard, kazoo
  • Bill Steel - bass, washtub bass
  • Mike Beardslee - harmony vocals
(Thing Called) Love, Bass Strings and Section 43 are by Country Joe & The Fish;
  • Country Joe McDonald - guitar, harmonica, vocals
  • Barry Melton - guitar, vocals
  • David Cohen - guitar, organ
  • Bruce Barthol - bass, harmonica
  • Paul Armstrong - tambourine, maracas
  • John Francis Gunning - drums
Fire in the City and Johnny's Gone to the War are by Peter Krug;
  • Peter Krug - guitar, vocals
Kiss My Ass, Tricky Dicky and Free Some Day are by Country Joe McDonald with Grootna;
  • Country Joe McDonald - guitar, vocals
  • Anne Rizzo - vocals
  • Richard Sussman - piano
  • Greg Dewey - drums
  • Nacho Dewey - harp
  • John Rewind - guitar
  • Vic Smith - bass
Related releases

I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag (one take), Superbird, Fire in the City and Johnny's Gone to the War were originally released as the first Country Joe & The Fish EP;

(Thing Called) Love, Bass Strings and Section 43 were originally released as the second Country Joe & The Fish EP; Kiss My Ass, Tricky Dicky and Free Some Day were originally released as the third Rag Baby EP;
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