C.J. Fish

CJ Fish is the fifth album by the San Francisco psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish, released in April 1970 on the Vanguard label. It would be the band's first production with Tom Wilson and Country Joe & the Fish's last studio album for Vanguard Records. Recording took place at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, California. After extensive touring with a new lineup, including Big Brother and the Holding Company guitarist Peter Albin, the makeshift group returned to the recording studio. Country Joe McDonald had already begun producing and recording solo albums for the label at that point. As for the band, Country Joe and the Fish underwent a personnel change for this album adding drummer Greg Dewey, bassist Doug Metzner, and keyboardist Mark Kapner in place of David Cohen and Gary "Chicken" Hirsh. Primary composers Barry "The Fish" Melton and "Country Joe" McDonald remained, resulting in an album that retained the sound and style of the original lineup. The new lineup would tour extensively around the time the Woodstock film was released and the group was also included in the film Zachariah: The First Electric Western as a band of outlaws known as "The Crackers".

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