Released August 20, 1994 Length 63:46 Release date 20 August 1994 | Recorded August 18, 1969 Label Polydor | |
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Awards Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instruments And Vocals Similar Band of Gypsys, Electric Ladyland, Blues, The Jimi Hendrix Concerts, Experience Hendrix: The Best | ||
Woodstock is a live album by Jimi Hendrix released posthumously on August 20, 1994. The album is an edited recording of Hendrix's performance with his band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows at Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York on August 18, 1969. A more-complete version of the concert would be released in 1999 as Live at Woodstock, albeit with some of the performers mixed out.
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Critical reception
In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau said the under-rehearsed, highly eccentric music on Woodstock makes for what was a transitional but all-important live album by Hendrix: "All in all, your basic rock concert as act of flawed genius. Does this kind of thing happen any more? Not on such a scale for sure." Although Live at Woodstock (1999) was later released as a more comprehensive record of Hendrix's performance, Christgau felt the "condensed reconfiguration" offered by the 1994 album magnified the concert's "aura". AllMusic's Jason Anderson was less enthusiastic, deeming it "very significant" but not very well recorded, with fairly dull versions of "Fire" and "Purple Haze".
Track listing
All tracks written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Personnel
Songs
1Introduction1:57
2Fire3:53
3Izabella5:10