Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More

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Music from the Original Soundtrack and More
Live album by Various artists
Released 15 August 1970
Recorded August 15-17, 1969
Genre Rock
Length 90:24
Label Cotillion/Atlantic Records
Producer Eric Blackstead
Professional reviews
Woodstock compilation chronology
Music from the Original Soundtrack and More
(1971)		 Woodstock 2
(1971)

Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, or more commonly Woodstock, is the live album of the 1969 Woodstock concert. 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. This triple album set of the monumental outdoor concert features Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performing live for only the second time. The song "Sea Of Madness" by Neil Young is not available on any other authorized recording; the actual version heard on the record, however, was in fact recorded a month after the festival at the Fillmore East auditorium in New York City.

A second collection of recordings from the festival, Woodstock 2, was released a year later. In 1994 the complete contents of both albums (as well as numerous additional, previously-unreleased performances from the festival) were reissued by Atlantic as a 4-CD box set titled Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music.

Contents

[edit] 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.
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.

[edit] Side one

  1. "I Had a Dream" – 2:38 (2:53)
  2. "Going Up the Country – 3:19 (5:53)
  3. "Freedom" – 5:13 (5:26)
  4. "Rock and Soul Music" – 2:09 (2:09)
  5. "Coming into Los Angeles" – 2:05 (2:50)
  6. "At the Hop" – 2:13 (2:33)

[edit] Side two

  1. "The "Fish" Cheer
    I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die-Rag" – 3:02 (3:48)
  2. "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man" – 2:08 (2:38)
    • Performed by Joan Baez & Jeffrey Shurtleff.
  3. "Joe Hill" – 2:40 (5:34)
  4. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" – 8:04 (9:02)
  5. "Sea of Madness" – 3:22 (4:20)

[edit] Side three

  1. "Wooden Ships" – 5:26 (5:26)
  2. "We're Not Gonna Take It" – 4:39 (6:54)
  3. "With a Little Help from My Friends" – 7:50 (10:06)
    • 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.

[edit] Side four

  1. "Soul Sacrifice" – 8:05 (13:52)
    • 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.
  2. "I'm Going Home" – 9:20 (9:57)

[edit] Side five

  1. "Volunteers" – 2:45 (3:31)
    • 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.
  2. "Medley" (Performed by Sly & the Family Stone) – 13:47 (15:29)
    • Dance to the Music - 2:11
    • Music Lover - 4:50
    • I Want to Take You Higher - 6:46
  3. "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" – 2:05 (3:54)

[edit] Side six

  1. "Love March" - 8:43 (8:59)
  2. "Medley" (Performed by Jimi Hendrix.) – 12:51 (13:42)

[edit] Notes

  • "Sea of Madness" has been anthologized on Neil Young's A Perfect Echo, Volume 1 (disc 1: 1967-1971).

[edit] Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1970 Billboard Pop Albums (Billboard 200) 1
Preceded by
Let It Be by The Beatles		 Billboard 200 number-one album
July 11 - August 7, 1970		 Succeeded by
Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 by Blood, Sweat & Tears
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