Paris Sessions (Country Joe McDonald Album)

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Paris sessions
Country Joe McDonald's studio album

Publication
(s)

1973

Label (s) Vanguard Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Folk rock

Title (number)

10

running time

30:06

production

Joe McDonald

Studio (s)

Strawberry Studios near Manchester, Chateau d'Hérouville near Paris, Different Fur Studios near San Francisco, Funky Features, San Francisco

chronology
Incredible! Live! Paris sessions Country Joe
Single release
1973 Fantasy

Paris Sessions is the sixth album Country Joe McDonald released under his own name. It was released in 1973 and received 2 out of 5 stars on Allmusic.

The album is all about the emerging movement of equal rights for women: Instead of “Peace and Love”, the songs deal with social issues, and McDonald's All-Star Band consists mostly of women. But also Peter Albin and David Getz from Janis Joplin's Big Brother and the Holding Company , who at times also belonged to Country Joe and the Fish , are part of the party.

Zombies in a House of Madness is a poem about life in “madhouses”. Movieola is dedicated to Stanley Kubrick and Francis Ford Coppola and criticizes clichés and violence in famous films.

Track list

(All tracks by Country Joe McDonald unless otherwise noted)

Page 1:

  1. Fantasy (3:37)
  2. Movieola (2:51)
  3. I'm so Tired , Joe McDonald / Barry Melton (4:53)
  4. Moving (2:04)
  5. I don't know why (1:53)

Page 2:

  1. Zombies in a House of Madness , Michael Beasley (1:39)
  2. Sexist Pig (3:50)
  3. Colorado Town , Barry Melton / Joe McDonald (3:09)
  4. Coulene Anne (3:41)
  5. St. Tropez (2:29)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bill Belmont's McDonald biography on the McDonald home page , accessed November 21, 2012

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