Country Joe McDonald - Time Flies By (CD)

(2-CD set) The first Country Joe album with a focus on a group sound since The Fish broke up in '71. After working as a guest with the Christmas Jug Band, Joe takes an all-acoustic jug band / string band approach here, using CJB front man & producer, Tim Eschliman as co-producer and washtub/string bass player and Gregory Dewey, the CJB's stalwart washboardist/drummer & the Fish's Woodstock drummer. Drawing upon the Jug Band's pool of instrumentalists, and Joe's own circle of talent, the album was fleshed out with such luminaries as Harper Simon, The Persuasions, Austin de Lone, Russ Gauthier, Ken "Snakebite" Jacobs, Suzy Thompson, Chris & Lorin Rowan and Bernie Krause. Included also are songs from Joe's singer/songwriter songbook recorded by Stephen Hart at Fantasy Studios. All original material save one Merle Haggard tune. Decades in the making, Time Flies By incorporates instrumentals, ballads, protests, waltzes and rock and roll.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Write a Song
2. Sad and Lonely Times
3. Rainbow Stew
4. The Clone Song
5. Gunshot Wound
6. Section 43
7. All My Love in Vain
8. Rock Coast Blues
9. Katrina
10. I'm on the Road Again
11. Feels Like Heaven
12. Who Am I
13. Colorado Town
14. Dark Clouds
15. Plastic Bag

Disc: 2

1. Peace on Earth
2. Yankee Doodle
3. Four More Years of Good Times
4. Rock and Roll Again
5. Trombone Blues
6. Eleventh Step
7. Plastic Dome
8. Feels Like Heaven, Pt. 2
9. Lady with the Lamp
10. Support the Troops
11. Gunshots
12. Garbage Truck
13. Write a Song, Pt. 2