Collector's Item: First Three EPs

Country Joe & The Fish

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)

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

• 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

• Peter Krug - guitar, vocals

• Country Joe McDonald - guitar, vocals
• Anne Rizzo - vocals
• Richard Sussman - piano
• Greg Dewey - drums
• Nacho Dewey - harp
• John Rewind - guitar
• Vic Smith - bass

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;

• Rag Baby EP 1: Talking Issue, Country Joe & The Fish/Peter Krug, 1965

• Rag Baby EP 2: Country Joe & The Fish EP, Country Joe & The Fish, 1966

• Rag Baby EP 3: Resist!, Country Joe McDonald with Grootna, 1971