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Released
  
May 11, 1970

Producer
  
Eric Blackstead

Release date
  
11 May 1970

Movie
  
Woodstock

Awards
  
Grammy Hall of Fame

Length
  
138:56

Music from the Original Soundtrack and More (1970)
  
Woodstock 2 (1971)

Label
  
Cotillion Records

Genre
  
Rock music


Recorded
  
August 15–18, 1969 on an 8-track recording console

Similar
  
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace, Live at Woodstock, The Woodstock Experience, Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back, Woodstock 2

Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More is a live album of selected performances from the 1969 Woodstock counterculture festival. Originally released on Atlantic Records' Cotillion label as a set of 3 LPs in 1970 (later reissued on the Atlantic label), it was re-released as a double CD in 1994. Veteran producer Eddie Kramer was the sound engineer during the three-day event. The date of release of the original LP set was May 11, 1970.

Contents

This album's version of the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performance of "Sea of Madness" was actually recorded a month after the festival, during a performance at the Fillmore East auditorium in New York City, New York. The live Woodstock version can be found on the 2009 album Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm.

A second collection of recordings from the festival, Woodstock 2, was released a year later. In 1994 the songs from both albums, as well as numerous additional, previously-unreleased performances from the festival, but not the stage announcements and crowd noises, were reissued by Atlantic as a 4-CD box set titled Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music. In 2009, Rhino Records issued a 6-CD box, Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm, which includes further musical performances as well as stage announcements and other ancillary material.

The couple on the album cover are Bobbi Kelly and Nick Ercoline.

Track listing

On the LP release, side one was backed with side six, side two was backed with side five, and side three was backed with side four. This was common on multi-LP sets of the time, to accommodate the popular record changer turntables.

Most of the tracks have some form of stage announcement, conversation by the musicians, etc., lengthening the tracks to an extent. Times are listed as the length of time the music was played in the song, while times in parentheses indicate the total running time of the entire track.

Side one
  1. "I Had a Dream" (John Sebastian) – 2:38 (2:53)
  2. Performed by John Sebastian.
  3. "Going Up the Country" (Alan Wilson)– 3:19 (5:53)
  4. Performed by Canned Heat
  5. "Freedom (Motherless Child)" (Richie Havens) – 5:13 (5:26)
  6. Performed by Richie Havens.
  7. "Rock and Soul Music" (McDonald, Melton, David Cohen, Barthol, Hirsh) – 2:09 (2:09)
  8. Performed by Country Joe & the Fish.
  9. "Coming into Los Angeles" (Arlo Guthrie) – 2:05 (2:50)
  10. Performed by Arlo Guthrie.
  11. "At the Hop" (Artie Singer, David White, John Medora) – 2:13 (2:33)
  12. Performed by Sha-Na-Na.
Side two
  1. "The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" (McDonald) – 3:02 (3:48)
  2. Performed by Country Joe McDonald.
  3. "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man" (Roger McGuinn, Graham Parsons) – 2:08 (2:38)
  4. Performed by Joan Baez & Jeffrey Shurtleff.
  5. "Joe Hill" (Alfred Hayes, Earl Robinson) – 2:40 (5:34)
  6. Performed by Joan Baez.
  7. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (Stephen Stills) – 8:04 (9:02)
  8. Performed by Crosby, Stills & Nash.
  9. "Sea of Madness" (Neil Young) – 3:22 (4:20)
  10. Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Recorded in June 1970 at the Fillmore East auditorium, New York City, New York.
Side three
  1. "Wooden Ships" (Stills, David Crosby, Paul Kantner--Kantner not credited on original release) – 5:26 (5:26)
  2. Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
  3. "We're Not Gonna Take It" (Pete Townshend) – 4:39 (6:54)
  4. Performed by The Who. (The performance on the album picks up mid-song at the very end of the "We're Not Gonna Take It" portion and then finishes with the "See Me, Feel Me" and "Listening to You" sections.) The final 1:50 of the track is an emergency announcement and the statement that declared "it's a Free Concert from now".
  5. "With a Little Help from My Friends" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 7:50 (10:06)
  6. Performed by Joe Cocker. In the CD version, the first disc would close with this track, with a 1:30 long recording of the rainstorm.
Side four
  1. "Soul Sacrifice" (Santana, Rolie, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve) – 8:05 (13:52)
  2. Performed by Santana. The first 3 minutes of the track is the "Crowd Rain Chant," a chant started by the crowd as an attempt to stop the rainstorm.
  3. "I'm Going Home" (Alvin Lee) – 9:20 (9:57)
  4. Performed by Ten Years After.
Side five
  1. "Volunteers" (Marty Balin, Kantner) – 2:45 (3:31)
  2. Performed by Jefferson Airplane. The final 34 seconds or so of the track is a speech by Max Yasgur, praising the crowd for coming to the festival.
  3. "Medley" (Performed by Sly & the Family Stone) – 13:47 (15:29)
  4. "Dance to the Music" (Sylvester Stewart) – 2:11
  5. "Music Lover" (Stewart) – 4:50
  6. "I Want to Take You Higher" (Stewart) – 6:46
  7. "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" (Sebastian) – 2:05 (3:54)
  8. Performed by John Sebastian.
Side six
  1. "Love March" (Gene Dinwiddie, Phillip Wilson) – 8:43 (8:59)
  2. Performed by Butterfield Blues Band.
  3. "Medley" (Performed by Jimi Hendrix.) – 12:51 (13:42)
  4. "Star Spangled Banner" (Traditional, arrangement, Jimi Hendrix)– 5:40
  5. "Purple Haze" (Hendrix) – 3:28
  6. "Instrumental Solo" (Hendrix) – 3:43 (retitled and re-edited when Hendrix's Woodstock show was released more fully in the 1990s. The improvised, fast solo section immediately following "Purple Haze" was heavily cut in the original Woodstock film and soundtrack, and most of the track here is what would later be titled "Villanova Junction", a slow bluesy ballad with the band joining in the background. The uncut version of the solo was restored in the director's cut of Woodstock and on the video of Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock and titled "Woodstock Improvisation")

Chart positions

1970

2009

Songs

1I Had a DreamJohn Sebastian2:53
2Going Up the CountryCanned Heat5:54
3FreedomRichie Havens5:26

References

Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More Wikipedia
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