To be honest, I can't say I'm that familiar with his discography. But since he died, I wanted to see if there were any worthy albums I could post of his music. To my surprise, I found not one, not two, not three, but four albums of unreleased material he performed for the BBC, all of it from the 1970s. Here's the first one. It consists of BBC studio sessions.
The first seven tracks come from an appearance on John Peel's radio show, "Top Gear," in 1970. Tracks 8 and 9 are from the "One in Ten" radio show "One in Ten" in 1971. The rest of the songs are from the "Old Grey Whistle Test" TV show. Tracks 10 through 14 are from a 1972 episode. Most of the songs were performed in solo acoustic mode.
All the music here is unreleased. The sound quality is generally excellent, especially since there was no audience noise.
This album is 40 minutes long.
01 Hold On, It's Coming (Country Joe McDonald)
02 Balancing on the Edge of Time (Country Joe McDonald)
03 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
04 It's So Nice to Have Love (Country Joe McDonald)
05 Maria (Country Joe McDonald)
06 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
07 Tell Me Where You're Bound (Country Joe McDonald)
08 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
09 Jean Desprez (Country Joe McDonald)
10 Tricky Dick (Country Joe McDonald)
11 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
12 Trapped Inside a Fantasy (Country Joe McDonald)
13 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
14 Coulene Anne (Country Joe McDonald)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/N124GwUt
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https://bestfile.io/LXstnTF0Kdc6Uyi/file
The cover image is from an appearance on an unnamed British TV show some time in 1972.
Hi. here is items that I have from UK Radio/TV something maybe of interest. https://pixeldrain.com/u/5Kgm8Ye2
ReplyDeleteThanks for the albums you add. Its much appreciated
Also did you try Guinea Pig in Peru?
Thanks a ton for that! As you can see from the revised album above, I took your files into consideration. Specifically, I had pretty much everything you sent that I could identify as BBC. (I wasn't sure about the 1970 concert you included, or the brief 1973 concert snippet.) However, I didn't have the 1977 John Peel session. When I added that in, it was enough to make me split this album in two. So thanks again.
DeleteOh, and as for the guinea pig question, no. I'm a pescaterian (vegetarian plus fish), so that was off my menu.
That is nice! Coincidently, I just watched by chance the 70's "acid western" Zachariah, where Country Joe and the Fish play a part as a "criminal music band" and they are responsible for the movie's music along a couple other acts. There is an official soundtrack available, for anyone who is interested or curious.
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