A powerful country song that captured the tensions of its time climbed to the top of the charts on this day in 1970. Merle ...

While playing in Vietnam a singer joined with a Lunar New Year song creating a lively moment as the music filled the street ...

Why, in an era when music's biggest stars are more outspoken than ever, does it feel like we're still waiting for the ...

In 1971, Graham Nash's debut solo album, 'Songs for Beginners', was written largely from his newfound perspectives within political activism in California.

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 ...

Musician behind Vietnam war protest hit I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag dead from Parkinson’s complications, his wife confirms ...

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 ...

How four Canadians scored a US No 1 with a covert anti-war song written at a curling rink, and then got banned from playing ...

People say art and politics should be kept separate, but these heroic soldiers and their tribute songs prove otherwise.

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

Country Joe McDonald has passed away at the age of 84 ...