Country Joe and The Fish - Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine

[MegaKegHead]

Hmm...was Martha Lorraine trying to find 12-21-12 reading I Ching?



[dougerrr]

never ate the orange ozley... had the green and the purple.... in so cal we had orange county sunshine.. was made by the brotherhood out of laguna beach

[WickedTornado]

I grew up with this. Pretty sure it was a song about pro-communism. Country Joe McDonald was an unabashed communist, to the best of my knowledge. And the lyric "country ways" = communism. Personally, I love the song, because it brings back great memories of Jr. High and High School....but hate the message in the song. But those San Francisco bands at that time....they all kind of had that bent. Of course, they were all in their mid-20's and thought they knew everything. Ha.

[animascat]

@WickedTornado i was in junior high and didn't look at things politicly. great album throughout. listened to this over and over on 8 track

[animascat]

@animascat had an older friend who had a volkswagon bug and 8 track player four other clulesss pretenders and i would cruise high as hell around diggin every minute of it played electric music for the mind and body over and over

[Rosscara58]

i am a bit young to remember this . but drop a tab and you think you know it word for word. peace man, down with the paki,s

[WickedTornado]

Ohhh man, this takes me back to '67 (jr. high) in hot, dusty much-smaller-than-now Tucson Arizona. I always dug this tune, but it never got played enough. On another note, I'm trying to find a tune that I was positive was done by Quicksilver Mess. Service, but there seems to be a female singing also in the chorus...the main repetitive lines being "come back baby, comeback, ....come back baby, comeback....to meeeeee. Having a tough time finding it, it's probably named something else. Thanks!

[MegaKegHead]

KSHE daily

[MrWildcountry]

East,West,Wherever,,

[tobygrey22]

I remember that KSAN FM in San Francisco used to play this all the time

[chinzebo]

WOW...Thanks for all the spex AND posting this neato song!!.

[DD52]

OldRocker - Geez, someone else who remembers both CJ&F AND the Ultimate Spinach?!?!?!

What was the print on those blotters?

[909chuck]

In Chicago, back then, this got airplay on underground FM stns. This was revolutionary and part of expanding minds and freedoms. Hardly remembered in the distance now, seems a very long time since.

[Dominik19Z]

Great infos !

[mrniggerbaiter]

There were a 100 people at a Cesar Chavez Birthday celebration in front of SF city hall,Country Joe was playing,and nobody knew,who he is. But we all know Santana.

[mrjhon1997]

The Summer of 67. That was quite a time for me. I was only 11 and a half years old, but I wore a flower in my hair and that was groovy cause I was a guy. Me and my pals would listen to our Transistor Radios and the great music put out by Vancouver's 73 CKLG AM and this song by Country Joe and the Fish will always be part of the iconography of my youth. It's tough to find it on the net these days because there are several other songs out there under the title of Sweet Lorraine. But CJ&F's is best

[schniffu]

Jeff said Skye was Martha

[toddwindyhill]

Back in the day, Lorraine was known as "Lori the love maker"........knew her job and did it VERY well!!........2/69.....and years later!!

[babiyogi]

Today it's Turn OFF to tune in... and drop out... people are so connected they're disconnected - to the real world.

love me some country joe & the fish!

[bassgod89]

My name is Jack Woodward. I've spent the past few years churning out music as fast as possible. Most cats record an album a year and call it a day. They deliberate on the shit that they're going to do before hand and deface the initial inspiration of the music into obliteration. I try to capture it at the moment of conception. I don't question what I'm being told, I just write it down. Check out my music videos to hear the songs I conceived in this fashion.

[ThePlasticrat]

i just their greatest hits on vinyl :D this song is on it along with the feel-like-im-fixin-to-die-rag

[sweetjunegirl]

ahh sweet lorraine........



[pylgrym]

Truly pioneering.

[toddwindyhill]

Sweet Lorraine........fka Lori The Lovemaker........one meeting, one night........March, 1969.......August, 2010-Facebook friends......amazing!!!

[pappysmp]

From music enhanced by drugs to music enhanced by computers..hehehe

[doberfag]

@amin1950 i guess people in music are the same as hollywood is today. no imagination, trying to rehash things from the past that cannot be re created.

[cherrybomb2600]

@doberfag too true. t.v. has numded people who watch it. most people watch whatever's on & don't complain when it's crap.

me & my friends used to listen to vinyl, go out & have fun. very little t.v./movies. they are other people's dreams, and imho, not worth watching.

you shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you. ~ Bob Dylan

[DD52]

Well, Oldrocker, I did not think that anyone but me remembered the Ultimate Spinach.

Thanks for making me feel young again.

[doberfag]

the song death sound on this lp is killer.. good lp to drop acid to.... the live version of this at woodstock is better i think than the studio . i saw an inteview with joe on pbs about this lp, apparently they recorded this thing pretty much dropping acid.

[Ladybrite1]

I haven't heard this for far too long. My brother had this album and he played it a lot after he came back from Namn. This was my favorite of the LP.

[ceswert]

This song was and is so sweet. I bought this album when it first came out. Still is excellent !

[zoec1969]

greatest lyrics..an alltime fav

[sweetjunegirl]

listen to this every week.....sweet lorraine........

[sz3rd]

love this group, had the chance to see them, loved it had left over orange bros from a dead show... total.

[folkrockm14]

i have this album on vinyl record

[folkrockm14]

pure 1960's rock n roll

[captainsoul1953]

Loved it so much i bought the single...but no one else did..in the UK anyway

Jim

[boptron]

Thanks Alex!, you reminded me of the '60's folk stuff........

[bukhavul]

Well you know that it's a shame and a pity

You were raised up in the city

And you never learned nothing 'bout country ways,

Ah, 'bout country ways.

the best part of the song!!

[berrygoodstuff]

This was my very favorite of their songs and was so disappointed when they didn't sing it at this huge concert at the Long Beach Arena, but what the heck Buffalo Springfield made up for with all their songs.

[pankowbaby345]

oh yeah brings back memories. do any of you know what song is about. have always been told it is about heroin

[bassist448]

I was always told it was about a girl hermit who obsseses with death. But there are always more than 1 explanaitions for a song.

[AlaokDibar]

It was on the playlist on XHIS in San Diego back in the early seventies, haven't heard it since.

[kenfig]

Their organ sounds like Pink Floyd on Piper at the gates of dawn ; is it 'Farfisa' organ or Leslie ?.I prefer the next album generally, I Feel like im fixing to die

[keniee]

I wished to go to sleep with this album playing. Love this song in particular. I forget the name of the LP, ..... guess I could look it up.

[okicuru12]

I'm 18 again and smoking dope....

Always liked this one, it's what got me to buy the album

[tah85664]

i am 14(1970) and its my first desert party in north phx az. we're in my cousins car blazing for about the third or fouth time ever. heard this tune and its been in my head ever since. a true classic. you can see why i relate to your comment.

[scottbutler07]

we used to call em "boondockers"

[6749er]

and we said Hey! Country Joe & The Fish

are on the AM!

I think this is a great song.

[jdupnrth]

thinhing about that gurl thst filoowedn dmsndon

[bobacote]

Mike and the Frogs use to cover this in Lowell, Ma. in the 60's. Great song.

[CMOSABE]

Pure Acid !

[coolitababy]

I was listening to old recordings of John Peel's 1967 Radio London shows and this came on...I'd never heard it before. It's so good.

[okmama]

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out...Those were the days of Real Music.

[goindownthe1road]

This is good, but the live version from Monterey Pop is better. Thx for posting it.

[LiturgicalChants]

Absolutely the monterrey pop version is stunning

[Jenscool]

Not so sweet Martha Steward.XD

[jdel58]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[andygray]

Thanks for posting, Brilliant song.

[KIDAmnesiacBends]

psychedelic rock is the most unique genre of music

[scotpens]

Apropos of nothing, the band's name in Spanish is "José del Campo y los Peces."

[niftynige24]

i hope this is not about drugs, praise the lord:)

[Rich915]

My favorite Fish tune...Thanks!

[splishsplash9]

I grew up with this ,it's like history 101 ,only we were writng it!Thanks Joe!Thanks Barry!Loved the presidents day 4-days at fillmore.?/2/70.Draft still on,and no call from our quarter to lean on our military,with violience,disregard or disrespect for our men and women in the service! Sort a like NOW

[gemineye55]

boy this one really takes me back to my hippie days...loved this band...very underrated

[iansox35]

As ever great Joe and the fish music!

[ogrecat]

One of my favorites, glad to find it.

[berrygoodstuff]

I'm so in shock this song is here! This is my all time favorite acid rock song. Those guys were insane in person. I'm absolutely psyched! Thanks for putting this up.

[oldrocker1951]

CJ & Fish and/or Ultimate Spinach and a couple a hits of 'blotter' or "orange osley" and we were 'there and everywhere'! The late 60's and early 70's were the absolute best of rock--nothing like it ever again! To be in the late teen years in the late 60's again--I'd do it again in a heartbeat!!!!!!!!

[Jenscool]

I'm with you, brother!

[CrudeDude]

Blue Flat

[jacouber]

huh?

[CrudeDude]

"Blue Flat" was a form of LSD. You had to be there. I was.

[6749er]

Haven't heard that name in a while.

Smooth sailing.

[adnaruto25]

@oldrocker1951 lucky you i was in my late teens in 79-80 was left with in punk

and the new-wave, dear me ^^ nothing left to do only going backward ...

[Mike2008and2008]

Watch it with the HIPPY DIPPY stuff :)

Thanks for uploading this!

[bassandguitarguy]

Hey, CJ, thanks for the hippy dippy times back then....

[harmonicaman2008]

I can remember exactly where I was when I first heard this song! In my room,feeling like a criminal,loaded on reds and acid! Youth back then was so much simpler back then!!

[scotpens]

Yeah, back then we didn't have any music video TV channels. We had to hallucinate our own pictures to go with the music!

[Radicals888]

Ha Ha Ha Ha.....very funny

[luckydevils]

ELectric Music for the Mind and Body was the first album I ever bought (after hearing Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine in a head shop). Thanks for posting it.

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[melessajane]

Can't believe I found this song. Thanks!

[Oscar301]

This is a peach of a song... good work, Blestemp

[buska100]

This brings back memories,his later bands were also damn good. About 1977 Country Joe toured Australia,he came to Canberra,a night to remember.

[acidcasual07]

country mutha fukin ride on joe. too bad peace boggs out ur brain lol.

[djhippiegirl]

Thank you for remembering this great song! I was living in North Hollywood in the very early 70's and really "getting off" on this song. Thank you, thank you.

[Leaveitago]

This is a great song. Thanks for posting.