Country Joe (album)

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Country Joe
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Released1975
StudioVanguard 23rd Street Studios, New York City
Genre Rock
Length41:31
Label Vanguard
Producer Maynard Solomon
Country Joe McDonald chronology
Paris Sessions
(1972)
Country Joe
(1975)
Love is a Fire
(1976)
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Country Joe was the seventh album by Country Joe McDonald, released in 1975. It was reissued on CD in 1996 on the One Way Records label.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joe McDonald; except where indicated

  1. "Dr. Hip" – 3:46
  2. "Old Joe Corey" – 3:05
  3. "Making Money in Chile" – 3:11
  4. "You Messed over Me" – 5:02
  5. "Memories" – 6:50
  6. "Chile" – 4:33
  7. "Pleasin'" – 4:12
  8. "Jesse James" (Barry Melton, Robert Hunter) – 3:49
  9. "Satisfactory" – 4:09
  10. "It's Finally Over" – 2:54

Personnel

Technical

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