""Country Joe" McDonald
A longtime presence in the Bay Area music scene whose peers included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother and the Holding Company, rock star "Country Joe" McDonald (Jan. 1, 1942 – March 7, 2026) wrote or co-wrote hundreds of songs, and was a founding member of Country Joe and the Fish.
Attending college in L.A. following three years in the Navy, McDonald met banjo/guitar player Blair Hardman, and their shared love of folk music figures like Woody Guthrie led McDonald to learn guitar."
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