• Brooklyn claims me as a native son (but I left at an early age)

• I share common ancestry with George Washington, many original colonists of Virginia, and a host of Confederate soldiers. I have a website devoted to my paternal ancestry: Click here if you'd like to check out some of my paternal ancestral line (I wish I could trace my maternal line, but I can't)

• Or Click here if you're doing geneological research on the Coker or Melton families of East Texas

• I moved to Van Nuys, California, graduating from U.S. Grant High School at age 17

• I then went to San Francisco, where I'm in The Who's Who of the Haight-Ashbury Era

• And a Chronology of San Francisco Rock by the Museum of the City of San Francisco

• Some of my discography is in the All Music Guide--some albums are still available

• Some of my filmography is in the All Movie Guide

• Martindale-Hubbell currently lists me in Woodland, California

• My songs can be searched under my name ("Barry Melton") at BMI

• I'm in The Annotated Mickey Hart Discography, and check out Mickey's homepage

• You can also find me in The Annotated Robert Hunter Discography

• I wrote an essay for inclusion in Long Time Gone: 60s America Then and Now, edited by my friend Alex Bloom. The book includes essays by Julian Bond and other notables of the 60s

• And don't forget Country Joe and The Fish - The Website 

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