Country Joe McDonald, the American artist who performed at the legendary Woodstock festival in 1969, has died. He was 84. McDonald, whose real name was Joseph Allen McDonald, is best known as the founder and singer of the folk-rock group Country Joe and the Fish.
He wrote the group's song "I-feel-like-I'm-fixin'-to-die rag," which became a prominent protest song during the Vietnam War. McDonald described the song as "punkrock before punk even existed" in a 2017 interview with The New York Times. He released over 30 albums in a long career that began in the early 1960s.
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He died on Saturday from complications of Parkinson's disease, according to a statement from his wife and band to The New York Times and Rolling Stone.