Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music

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Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music
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Live album by
Various artists
ReleasedAugust 9, 1994 (1994-08-09)
RecordedAugust 15–18, 1969 at Woodstock Festival, Bethel, NY
Genre Rock
Label Atlantic Records
Woodstock albums chronology
The Best of Woodstock
(1994)
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music
(1994)
Woodstock Diary
(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: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More , 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 Woodstock – Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive which includes every musical performance as well as stage announcements and other ancillary material.

Contents

Track listing

Disc one

  1. Richie Havens – "Handsome Johnny" (Havens) *
  2. Richie Havens – "Freedom (Motherless Child)" (traditional, adapted by Havens)
  3. Country Joe McDonald – "The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" (McDonald)
  4. John B. Sebastian – "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" (Sebastian)
  5. John B. Sebastian – "I Had a Dream" (Sebastian)
  6. Tim Hardin – "If I Were a Carpenter" (Hardin) *
  7. Melanie – "Beautiful People" (Melanie Safka)
  8. Arlo Guthrie – "Coming into Los Angeles" (Guthrie)
  9. Arlo Guthrie – "Walkin' Down the Line" (Bob Dylan) *
  10. Joan Baez – "Joe Hill" (Earl Robinson, Alfred Hayes)
  11. Joan Baez – "Sweet Sir Galahad" (Baez)
  12. Joan Baez featuring Jeffrey Shurtleff – "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man" (Roger McGuinn, Gram Parsons)
  13. Santana – "Soul Sacrifice" (Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, José Areas, Michael Carabello, David Brown, Michael Shrieve)
  14. Mountain – "Blood of the Sun" (Leslie West, Felix Pappalardi, Gail Collins)
  15. Mountain – "Theme for an Imaginary Western" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown)

Disc two

  1. Canned Heat – "Leaving This Town" (Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor) *
  2. Canned Heat – "Going Up the Country" (Alan Wilson)
  3. Creedence Clearwater Revival – "Commotion" (John Fogerty) *
  4. Creedence Clearwater Revival – "Green River" (Fogerty) *
  5. Creedence Clearwater Revival – "Ninety Nine and a Half (Won't Do)" (Wilson Pickett, Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd) *
  6. Creedence Clearwater Revival – "I Put a Spell on You" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) *
  7. Janis Joplin – "Try" (Jerry Ragovoy, Chip Taylor) *
  8. Janis Joplin – "Work Me, Lord" (traditional) *
  9. Janis Joplin – "Ball and Chain" (Big Mama Thornton) *
  10. Sly and the Family Stone – Medley: "Dance to the Music" / "Music Lover" / "I Want to Take You Higher" (Sylvester Stewart)
  11. The Who – "We're Not Gonna Take It" (Pete Townshend)

Disc three

  1. Jefferson Airplane – "Volunteers" (Paul Kantner, Marty Balin)
  2. Jefferson Airplane – "Somebody to Love" (Darby Slick) *
  3. Jefferson Airplane – "Saturday Afternoon/Won't You Try" (Kantner)
  4. Jefferson Airplane – "Uncle Sam Blues" (Jorma Kaukonen) *
  5. Jefferson Airplane – "White Rabbit" (Grace Slick) *
  6. Joe Cocker – "Let's Go Get Stoned" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) *
  7. Joe Cocker – "With a Little Help from My Friends" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
  8. Country Joe and the Fish – "Rock & Soul Music" (McDonald, Barry Melton, Chicken Hirsh, Bruce Barthol, Dave Cohen)
  9. Ten Years After – "I'm Going Home" (Alvin Lee)
  10. The Band – "Long Black Veil" (Marijohn Wilkin, Danny Dill) *
  11. The Band – "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" (Stevie Wonder, Ivy Jo Hunter) *
  12. The Band – "The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) *
  13. Johnny Winter – "Mean Town Blues" (Winter) *

Disc four

  1. Crosby, Stills & Nash – "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (Stephen Stills)
  2. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – "Guinnevere" (David Crosby)
  3. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – "Marrakesh Express" (Graham Nash)
  4. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – "4 + 20" (Stills)
  5. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – "Sea of Madness" (Neil Young)
  6. Crosby, Stills & Nash – "Find the Cost of Freedom" (Stills) *
  7. Paul Butterfield Blues Band – "Love March" (Gene Dinwiddie, Phillip Wilson)
  8. Sha Na Na – "At the Hop" (Artie Singer, John Medora, David White)
  9. Jimi Hendrix – "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" / "Stepping Stone" (Hendrix) *
  10. Jimi Hendrix – "The Star-Spangled Banner" (traditional, arranged by Hendrix)
  11. Jimi Hendrix – "Purple Haze"(Hendrix)

[*] Previously unreleased

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