Country Joe McDonald, Woodstock Star Who Found Counterculture Fame With ‘I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,’ Dies at 84

Country Joe McDonald, Woodstock Star Who Found Counterculture Fame With ‘I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,’ Dies at 84

“Country Joe” McDonald, who fronted the band Country Joe and the Fish and became an emblem of the 1960s antiwar counterculture through a prominent appearance at the Woodstock festival, died Saturday at age 84. The singer, born Joseph Allen McDonald, died of P…

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