Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music explained
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music |
Type: | Live |
Artist: | Various artists |
Cover: | Woodstock-ThreeDays.jpg |
Recorded: | August 15–18, 1969 at Woodstock Festival, Bethel, NY |
Genre: | Rock |
Label: | Atlantic Records |
Chronology: | Woodstock albums |
Prev Title: | The Best of Woodstock |
Prev Year: | 1994 |
Next Title: | Woodstock Diary |
Next Year: | 1994 |
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music is a 4-CD live box-set album of the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York.[1] Its release marked the 25th anniversary of the festival. The box set contains tracks from , Woodstock 2, and numerous additional, previously unreleased performances from the festival as well as the stage announcements and crowd noises. Just prior to the box set's release, Atlantic Records released a much shorter 1-CD version entitled The Best of Woodstock. In 2019, Rhino Records issued a 38-CD box set called which includes every musical performance as well as stage announcements and other ancillary material.
Track listing
Disc one
- Richie Havens – "Handsome Johnny" (Havens) *
- Richie Havens – "Freedom (Motherless Child)" (traditional, adapted by Havens)
- Country Joe McDonald – "The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" (McDonald)
- John B. Sebastian – "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" (Sebastian)
- John B. Sebastian – "I Had a Dream" (Sebastian)
- Tim Hardin – "If I Were a Carpenter" (Hardin) *
- Melanie – "Beautiful People" (Melanie Safka)
- Arlo Guthrie – "Coming into Los Angeles" (Guthrie)
- Arlo Guthrie – "Walkin' Down the Line" (Bob Dylan) *
- Joan Baez – "Joe Hill" (Earl Robinson, Alfred Hayes)
- Joan Baez – "Sweet Sir Galahad" (Baez)
- Joan Baez featuring Jeffrey Shurtleff – "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man" (Roger McGuinn, Gram Parsons)
- Santana – "Soul Sacrifice" (Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, José Areas, Michael Carabello, David Brown, Michael Shrieve)
- Mountain – "Blood of the Sun" (Leslie West, Felix Pappalardi, Gail Collins)
- Mountain – "Theme for an Imaginary Western" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown)
Disc two
- Canned Heat – "Leaving This Town" (Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor) *
- Canned Heat – "Going Up the Country" (Alan Wilson)
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – "Commotion" (John Fogerty) *
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – "Green River" (Fogerty) *
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – "Ninety Nine and a Half (Won't Do)" (Wilson Pickett, Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd) *
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – "I Put a Spell on You" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) *
- Janis Joplin – "Try" (Jerry Ragovoy, Chip Taylor) *
- Janis Joplin – "Work Me, Lord" (traditional) *
- Janis Joplin – "Ball and Chain" (Big Mama Thornton) *
- Sly and the Family Stone – Medley: "Dance to the Music" / "Music Lover" / "I Want to Take You Higher" (Sylvester Stewart)
- The Who – "We're Not Gonna Take It" (Pete Townshend)
Disc three
- Jefferson Airplane – "Volunteers" (Paul Kantner, Marty Balin)
- Jefferson Airplane – "Somebody to Love" (Darby Slick) *
- Jefferson Airplane – "Saturday Afternoon/Won't You Try" (Kantner)
- Jefferson Airplane – "Uncle Sam Blues" (Jorma Kaukonen) *
- Jefferson Airplane – "White Rabbit" (Grace Slick) *
- Joe Cocker – "Let's Go Get Stoned" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) *
- Joe Cocker – "With a Little Help from My Friends" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
- Country Joe and the Fish – "Rock & Soul Music" (McDonald, Barry Melton, Chicken Hirsh, Bruce Barthol, Dave Cohen)
- Ten Years After – "I'm Going Home" (Alvin Lee)
- The Band – "Long Black Veil" (Marijohn Wilkin, Danny Dill) *
- The Band – "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" (Stevie Wonder, Ivy Jo Hunter) *
- The Band – "The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) *
- Johnny Winter – "Mean Town Blues" (Winter) *
Disc four
- Crosby, Stills & Nash – "" (Stephen Stills)
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – "Guinnevere" (David Crosby)
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – "Marrakesh Express" (Graham Nash)
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – "4 + 20" (Stills)
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – "Sea of Madness" (Neil Young)
- Crosby, Stills & Nash – "Find the Cost of Freedom" (Stills) *
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band – "Love March" (Gene Dinwiddie, Phillip Wilson)
- Sha Na Na – "At the Hop" (Artie Singer, John Medora, David White)
- Jimi Hendrix – "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" / "Stepping Stone" (Hendrix) *
- Jimi Hendrix – "The Star-Spangled Banner" (traditional, arranged by Hendrix)
- Jimi Hendrix – "Purple Haze"(Hendrix)
[*] Previously unreleased
Notes and References
- Web site: Al . Campbell . Woodstock: Three Days of Peace & Music [25th Anniversary] – Various Artists ]. AllMusic . August 7, 2021.