Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More

Music from the Original Soundtrack and More
Live album by Various artists
Released	May 11, 1970
Recorded	August 15–18, 1969
Genre	Rock
Length	90:24
Label	Cotillion/Atlantic Records
Producer	Eric Blackstead
Professional reviews
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Woodstock compilation chronology
Music from the Original Soundtrack and More (1970) Woodstock 2 (1971)

Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More 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. 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.^[2]

This triple album set of the monumental outdoor concert features Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performing live for only the second time. The performance of "Sea Of Madness" by Neil Young actually 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 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.^[3]

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" – 2:38 (2:53)
   • Performed by John Sebastian.
2. "Going Up the Country" – 3:19 (5:53)
   • Performed by Canned Heat
3. "Freedom" – 5:13 (5:26)
   • Performed by Richie Havens.
4. "Rock and Soul Music" – 2:09 (2:09)
   • Performed by Country Joe & the Fish.
5. "Coming into Los Angeles" – 2:05 (2:50)
   • Performed by Arlo Guthrie.
6. "At the Hop" – 2:13 (2:33)
   • Performed by Sha-Na-Na.

Side two

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

Side three

1. "Wooden Ships" – 5:26 (5:26)
   • Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
2. "We're Not Gonna Take It" – 4:39 (6:54)
   • Performed by The Who. The final 1:50 of the track is an emergency announcement and the statement to declare "it's a Free Concert from now".
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.

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)
   • Performed by Ten Years After.

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)
   • Performed by John Sebastian.

Side six

1. "Love March" - 8:43 (8:59)
   • Performed by Butterfield Blues Band.
2. "Medley" (Performed by Jimi Hendrix.) – 12:51 (13:42)
   • Star Spangled Banner - 5:40
   • Purple Haze - 3:28
   • Instrumental Solo - 3:43

Chart positions

1970

Chart	Position
Billboard Pop Albums	1

2009

Chart	Position
Billboard Top Pop Catalog Albums	10

Preceded by Let It Be by The Beatles

Billboard 200 number-one album 11 July - 7 August 1970

Succeeded by Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 by Blood, Sweat & Tears

References

1. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Music from the Original Soundtrack and More". Robert Christgau. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=8166. 
2. ^ http://superhits1053.com/this-date-in-music-history-woodstock-soundtrack-released-videos/
3. ^ "Woodstock -- 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm boxed set" (Press release). Rhino.com. 2009-06-05. http://www.rhino.com/rzine/pressrelease.lasso?PRID=628. Retrieved 2009-08-16.