# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/country-joe-mcdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:44:36.786Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/country-joe-mcdonald"
name: "Country Joe McDonald"
slug: "country-joe-mcdonald"
description: "Joseph Allen \"Country Joe\" McDonald was an American singer, songwriter, musician and film composer, who was the lead singer and co-founder of the 1960s psychedelic folk-rock group Country Joe and the Fish. He wrote some of the group's most well-known songs, including \"Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine\" and \"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag\", the latter a protest song against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War."
tagline: "American musician (1942–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Countryjoe_79.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1942-01-01"
deathDate: "2026-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           23.19618
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0567710"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://countryjoe.com"
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    title: "jan Kansi So Matana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump