Woodstock ♫ Music from the Original Soundtrack ♫ Rare 1970 Original Vinyl 3xLP

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Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More by various artistsReleasedMay 11, 1970RecordedAugust 15–18, 1969 on an 8-track recording console, , Length138:56/Eric BlacksteadWoodstock compilation chronologyMusic from the Original Soundtrack and More
(1970)
(1971)Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingB

Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More is a live album of selected performances from the 1969   festival. Originally released on '  label as a set of 3 LPs in 1970 (later reissued on the Atlantic label), it was re-released as a  in 1994. Veteran producer  was the sound engineer during the three-day event. The date of release of the original LP set was May 11, 1970.

This album's version of the  performance of "Sea of Madness" was actually recorded a month after the festival, during a performance at the  auditorium in , . The live Woodstock version can be found on the 2009 album .

A second collection of recordings from the festival, , 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  titled . In 2009,  issued a 6-CD box, , which includes further musical performances as well as stage announcements and other ancillary material.

The couple on the album cover are Bobbi Kelly and Nick Ercoline.

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  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 "I Had a Dream" (John Sebastian) – 2:38 (2:53) Performed by . "" ()– 3:19 (5:53) Performed by  "Freedom ()" (Richie Havens) – 5:13 (5:26) Performed by . "Rock and Soul Music" (, , David Cohen, , ) – 2:09 (2:09) Performed by . "Coming into Los Angeles" (Arlo Guthrie) – 2:05 (2:50) Performed by . "" (, , ) – 2:13 (2:33) Performed by . Side two "" (McDonald) – 3:02 (3:48) Performed by . "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man" (, ) – 2:08 (2:38) Performed by  & Jeffrey Shurtleff. "Joe Hill" (, ) – 2:40 (5:34) Performed by . "" () – 8:04 (9:02) Performed by . "Sea of Madness" () – 3:22 (4:20) Performed by . Recorded in June 1970 at the  auditorium, , . Side three "" (Stills, , --Kantner not credited on original release) – 5:26 (5:26) Performed by . "" () – 4:39 (6:54) Performed by . (The performance on the album picks up mid-song at the very end of the "We're Not Gonna Take It" portion and then finishes with the "See Me, Feel Me" and "Listening to You" sections.) The final 1:50 of the track is an emergency announcement and the statement that declared "it's a Free Concert from now". "" (, ) – 7:50 (10:06) Performed by . In the CD version, the first disc would close with this track, with a 1:30 long recording of the rainstorm. Side four "" (, , , , ) – 8:05 (13:52) Performed by . 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. "I'm Going Home" () – 9:20 (9:57) Performed by . Side five "" (, Kantner) – 2:45 (3:31) Performed by . The final 34 seconds or so of the track is a speech by , praising the crowd for coming to the festival. "Medley" (Performed by ) – 13:47 (15:29) "" () – 2:11 "Music Lover" (Stewart) – 4:50 "" (Stewart) – 6:46 "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" (Sebastian) – 2:05 (3:54) Performed by . Side six "Love March" (, ) – 8:43 (8:59) Performed by . "Medley" (Performed by .) – 12:51 (13:42) "" (Traditional, arrangement, Jimi Hendrix)– 5:40 "" (Hendrix) – 3:28 "Instrumental Solo" (Hendrix) – 3:43 (retitled and re-edited when Hendrix's Woodstock show was released more fully in the 1990s. The improvised, fast solo section immediately following "Purple Haze" was heavily cut in the original Woodstock film and soundtrack, and most of the track here is what would later be titled "Villanova Junction", a slow bluesy ballad with the band joining in the background. The uncut version of the solo was restored in the director's cut of Woodstock and on the video of Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock and titled "Woodstock Improvisation")