Live at La Dame De Canton - 2019 (Add Description)

Can’t Stop to Boogie - 2011 (Add Description)

Jamasutra - Revolution Down The Road - 2010 My English and French collaboration with guitarist Stéphane Missri makes me proud.

“Revolution Down the Road”, a bilingual French/English neo-psychedelic music album that also features the spectacular Danish bassist, Charles Jannic, and well-known French drummer Christophe Rossi, former editor of the French drumming magazine, Batteur.  The new album was released under their collective band name, Jamasutra. Read More

Dual in the Desert is a straight-up, hard-driving album I did with Rich Hopkins. The album features the incomparable drumming of Tom Larkins, long-time drummer with Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, and Tucson's own Nick Augustine on bass. The album is really a guitar "shoot-out," and recorded in Tucson, Arizona, which is why "Dual in the Desert" is an apt description. -Barry

I did one song on this album with the Canned Heat Rhythm section.

This is "The Revenge of Blind Joe Death," a John Fahey tribute album, and I appear on one cut of the album - "Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Phillip XIV of Spain." I'm a part of "Canned Fish," a band that includes me, Fito de la Parra and Larry "The Mole" Taylor of Canned Heat (drums and bass), Phil Kellog and Henry Kaiser (guitars) and Mark Hummell (harmonica).

John Fahey was an important and innovative guitarist, and he was a founder of Takoma Records. The original manager of Country Joe and the Fish, ED Denson, also managed John Fahey and ran Takoma Records with John (both of them were from Takoma Park, Maryland). Fahey and Denson also helped bring such artists as Furry Lewis, Skip James, Bukka White, Son House, and Mississippi John Hurt back into the public eye in the early 1960's after making many trips to the South on music research trips, locating these great bluesmen and bringing them before folk music audiences in the North. My share of the royalties on this record are being donated to Music Cares, a charitable organization that provides assistance to musicians in need.

Dinosaurs “Friends of Extinction” is what’s sure to become a Dinosaurs classic. I spent most of the 80's working in this all-San Francisco band, and this double-CD features all the great Dinosaurs lineups including Peter Albin, John Cipollina, Papa John Creech, Spencer Dryden, Robert Hunter, Merl Saunders and me. One of the CDs is all never-before released live material and it features such guest artists as Stu Blank, Greg Elmore, Robbie Hoddinott, Doug Killmer and Kathi McDonald. The other CD includes the original Dinosaurs studio album + bonus cuts. -Barry

"The Saloon Years" is a release featuring a selection of songs recorded with various versions of my band between 1982 and 1994. All of the cuts on the album were recorded at The Saloon, one of San Francisco's oldest nightspots.

The album features my friends Peter Albin (bass), John Cipollina (guitar), Spencer Dryden and David Getz (Drums), and guitarists Bob Flurie (HooDoo Rhythm Devils) and Peter Walsh (Seatrain and the Commander Cody Band). The band was always billed as the Barry "the Fish" Melton Band, but in more recent years, I've come to think of the band as Middle-Aged Men With Musical Instruments. We had a big record release party at The Saloon, 1232 Grant St., San Francisco, on July 25th and 26th, 1997.

SONGS OF THE NEXT GREAT DEPRESSION - 1981
Fifth solo LP

LEVEL WITH ME - 1979
Fourth solo LP

WE ARE LIKE THE OCEAN - 1977
Third solo LP

MELTON, LEVY AND THE DEY BROTHERS - 1972

This album was co-produced by the late, great and incomparable blues guitarist, Michael Bloomfield, and features a duet with the both of us and many other fine performances by brothers Rick and Tony Dey (bass and drums, respectively), together with Jay Levy on keyboards. The album was recorded at Columbia Recording Studios in San Francisco and Los Angeles, has some really fine production values, and it features several of my songs along with some Rick Dey classics that should not be lost in the march of time.

I've Been In Darkness - Bright Sun Shining -Barry Melton (1970)

Third Degree

Something You Got

I Had A Dream

How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

Wine, Women, Whiskey

Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp

You've Got What It Takes

Georgia

I've Been In The Darkness

It's A Mean Old World

You've Really Got A Hold On Me

The Sun Is Shining

BRIGHT SUN SHINING (1970) Vanguard

First LP

Every kid has a dream. This is an album I began recording in January 1969, when I was 21 years old. Half of it is recorded in Chicago, with much of what was then the core of young bluesmen in town at the time: Morris Jennings on drums, who recorded with Howlin' Wolf that year; Donny Hathaway, who later became known for his spectacular work with Roberta Flack was then working with the Staples Singers (and, in fact, Pop Staples visited the studio during the sessions); Phil Upchurch, who was then the Chess House Band guitarist and was recording with Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, joined the session as a bass player; and Chess regular Gerald Sims, who was a fixture of the early Chicago soul sound as a member of the Daylighters and whose dozens of recordings included work with Little Milton, Bobby "Blue" Bland and Mary Wells. Gerald Sims later purchased the Chess studios in Chicago and produced records in that location for a number of years. The other half of the album includes sould music covers recorded in New York with members of the Wilson Pickett Band and the immortal Count Basie trumpet player, Joe Newman. All-in-all, this record was my 21-year-old fantasy come to life, recording some of my favorite blues and soul tunes of the era. It's recently been re-released by Comet Records, Vanguard Records' Italian affilliate and is likewise available through various Internet album sources. -Barry

This is the second Country Joe and the Fish album on Vanguard. Joe and I recorded two "EP" records for what is now ("Country") Joe's label, Rag Baby, the first of which featured us as a duo (and also with a jug band lineup) before we signed with Vanguard; and in addition to our first album, "Electric Music for the Mind and Body," we did three more for Vanguard (for a total of five).