Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix album)

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Woodstock
Jimi Hendrix - Woodstock.jpg
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ReleasedAugust 20, 1994 (1994-08-20)
RecordedAugust 18, 1969
Venue Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York
Genre Rock
Length63:46
Label MCA - Polydor
Producer Alan Douglas
Jimi Hendrix chronology
Blues
(1994)
Woodstock
(1994)
Voodoo Soup
(1995)

Woodstock is a live album by Jimi Hendrix released posthumously on August 20, 1994. It presents some of Hendrix's performance at Woodstock Festival on August 18, 1969. The album was replaced by a more-complete version in 1999 titled Live at Woodstock , albeit with some of the performances edited.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
New Musical Express 5/10 [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Village Voice A− [5]

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." [5]

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". [2] 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". [1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Introduction"1:56
2."Fire"3:53
3."Izabella"5:10
4."Hear My Train A Comin' (Get My Heart Back Together Again)"9:16
5."Red House"5:40
6."Jam Back at the House (Beginnings)"7:58
7."Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" / "Stepping Stone"12:49
8."Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith)3:42
9."Purple Haze"3:25
10."Woodstock Improvisation"4:59
11."Villanova Junction"3:04
12."Farewell"1:54

Personnel

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