Country Joe McDonald, the counterculture musician whose Vietnam War protest anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” became a defining song of the 1960s protest movement, has died at age 84.
McDonald died at his home in Berkeley, Calif., from complications related to Parkinson’s disease, according to his wife, Kathy. News of his death was first reported Monday (March 9).
Born Joseph Allen McDonald on Jan. 1, 1942, in Washington, D.C., McDonald rose to prominence as the frontman of Country Joe and the Fish, a San Francisco Bay Area psychedelic rock band that emerged from the counterculture scene…
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