Man from Athabasca - Country Joe McDonald video free download
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Duration: 06:19
Uploaded: 2009/10/16
From a solo album featuring the poems of Robert Service put to music.
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9 years ago
spliffqueeg
Everyone celebrating "American Sniper" should listen to this. Especially the line he sings, "as if it really mattered". When will the madness stop?9 years ago
agentorange153
I love singing this song (a capella) while giving blood, it's got just the right tempo. ;-)10 years ago
Asguriol
The change of melody from 3:36 to 4:34 is absolutely fantastic, it fits and emphasizes the lyrics perfectly.. It's such a hard task to put poetry into music due to personal interpretation colliding with author's will. Joe really succedeed in this song.10 years ago
Sakredkow
Poor fellow, they gathered him in bits the other day...11 years ago
Adrie Pors
BobDylan was zo'n beetje de eerste met zijn Masters of war en A hard rain, maar tijdens de Vietnam -Oorlog liet hij het afweten en nam met name Country Joe het estafette stokje van hem over en maakte een tal van anti- Vietnam songs, waaronder deze. Luister ook eens naar ' Agent Orange Song'11 years ago
AugustMeteors
Loved this album for almost 40 years. I never get tired of it, and I can never listen to just one cut--it's gotta be the whole thing.11 years ago
Ges Emery
I got this album the day it was released....he did Ballad of Jean Duprez at the 1970 Bath festival and you could have heard a pin drop......awesome lyrics /poems from Robert Service....one of my all time serious vein albums and have never grown tired of it ....11 years ago
hawkmoon03111951
The album was 'War War War'. I don't know if it's still available. Try Amazon.11 years ago
Pedro Marin
@hawkmoon03111951 do you know what's the album's name ? and do you know where i can buy or download this album ? Thanks from Brazil!11 years ago
Scott Thomas
The title of the song/poem is actually: The Man From Athabasca.11 years ago
Scott Thomas
The album this is from, WAR, WAR, WAR is a brilliant combination of poetry by Robert Service and voice and music by Country Joe. A haunting, powerful work!11 years ago
Scott Thomas
How cool to hear someone say this! It's one of my favorites!11 years ago
gerlan1234to
Thanks so much for this. It's amazing to hear it after all these years. Saw Country Joe live years ago and this takes me back.12 years ago
Punktowner
Wonderful...WONDERFUL. I love Service, and I love Country Joe's album WAR! WAR! WAR! There's now a live version of it.12 years ago
Sakredkow
Thank you so much for posting this!12 years ago
TheSecretmuseum
great choice!12 years ago
Beach Goat
One of my very favorites, not only of Joe's, & Roberts Services, but of all songs ever.13 years ago
Beach Goat
Always loved this song...he did Robert Service justice.13 years ago
MrJamesrnolan
Joe outdid himself with this LP. The most out and out (and overlooked) antiwar statement committed to vinyl in its time (1971). Interesting because the words were those of a man who was alive at the beginning of the 20th Century,who was speaking of the horrors of World War I, but the images could fit any war really. Brave (and scared too) men fought those wars (as Joe, who's worked with vets, would tell you), but in no way should the wars themselves be romanticized as a positive or great thing.14 years ago
