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Country Joe and the Fish – Together (1968): Country Joe and the Fish was an anti-war band that combined psychedelic rock, folk-rock and jug-band music; they leavened their songs with a lot of imagination and humor. Together is their third and most successful album and opens with “Rock and Soul Music”, a tribute to James Brown, which the band performed live at Woodstock the following year. The final song on Side 1, “The Streets of Your Town” opens with the “Good Guys/Bad Guys Cheer” – reminiscent of “The Fish Cheer” that launches the band’s best-known song, the bitingly satiric though high-spirited “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag”. While the band’s first two albums were dominated by bandleader Country Joe McDonald (one of the few counter-culture figures who is a veteran), Together is more of a group effort. Country Joe and the Fish broke up in 1970, but Country Joe McDonald has released numerous albums of folk and folk-rock music over the years since.