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Country Joe McDonald will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his landmark Electric Music For Mind & Body with a special show at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall on Friday, June 9. The Woodstock veteran and his classic Country Joe and the Fish helped kick off the Summer Of Love with the May 11, 1967 release of their debut, Electric Music for the Mind and Body, which is credited as one of the first breakthrough San Francisco psychedelic records. A few weeks later, they performed at the first great rock music festival Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967

As previously reported,, McDonald recently released his appropriately titled new album, 50. McDonald first started working on the new batch of songs, which features The Tubes’ Prairie Prince and members of his band, in 2015. They returned to the studio 25 times to perfect the material.