I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die

I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die
Studio album by Country Joe & the Fish
Released November 1967
Recorded 1966-March 1967
Genre Psychedelic rock
Length 44:56
Label Vanguard
Producer Samuel Charters
Country Joe & the Fish chronology
Electric Music for the Mind and Body
(1967)		 I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die
(1967)		 Together
(1968)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone (Favorable)[2]

I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die is the second album by the influential San Francisco psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish, released in 1967. The title track remains one of the most popular Vietnam protest songs from the 1960s and originally appeared in a 1965 7" EP titled Rag Baby: Songs of Opposition. On the album version however, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" appears alongside "The Fish Cheer," which at concerts, became a Country Joe standard. At Woodstock, however, Joe had the crowd yell F-U-C-K instead of F-I-S-H. The title song faced a legal challenge from the estate of New Orleans jazz trombone pioneer Edward "Kid" Ory, whose daughter Babette claimed that McDonald appropriated the melody for his song from Ory's classic "Muskrat Ramble," as recorded by Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five in 1926. A 2005 judgment upheld McDonald's copyright on the song, claiming that Ory waited too long to make the claim.

Track listing

  1. "The "Fish" Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" (McDonald) – 3:44
  2. "Who Am I" (McDonald) - 4:05
  3. "Pat's Song" (McDonald) - 5:26
  4. "Rock Coast Blues" (McDonald) - 3:57
  5. "Magoo" (McDonald) - 4:44
  6. "Janis" (McDonald) - 2:36
  7. "Thought Dream" (McDonald) - 6:39
  8. "Thursday" (Cohen, Hirsh) - 3:20
  9. "Eastern Jam" (Bartol, Cohen, Hirsh, Melton) - 4:27
  10. "Colors For Susan" (McDonald) - 5:58

Musicians

Reference list

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Vol 1. No. 3, December 14, 1967, p. 19