While playing music in Vietnam, someone began singing a Lunar New Year song (Tết Đong Đầy) and the atmosphere quickly changed. The festive melody spread through the street as people gathered to listen ...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and ...

One of the starring acts at Woodstock, he and his band, the Fish, came out of the Bay Area’s psychedelic rock scene. He went ...

"Country" Joe McDonald, irreverent folk singer and countercultural icon, died March 7 at age 84 in Berkeley, California.

The '60s icon passed away Saturday evening.

The hippies have become a punch line, but by fusing their political convictions to a broader cultural identity they found something that we seem to have lost, Jay Caspian Kang writes.

Country Joe McDonald, who became a Woodstock festival legend and fronted the band Country Joe and the Fish in the 1960s, has ...

"And its 1, 2, 3 what are we fighting for? Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn, next stop is Vietnam," the Woodstock star once sang.