Woodstock - Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive [38 CD, 2019/FLAC]

 

Limited to 1,969 individually numbered copies, WOODSTOCK - BACK TO THE GARDEN: THE DEFINITIVE 50th ANNIVERSARY ARCHIVE features 38 discs, 432-tracks - 267 previously unreleased - a near complete reconstruction of Woodstock clocking in at 36 hours, with every artist performance from the festival in chronological order.

         

 

Woodstock: Back to the Garden (50th Anniversary Experience) [10 CD, 2019 / FLAC / FLAC-HD / 320]

Woodstock: Back to the Garden (50th Anniversary Experience) rises above its predecessors. A considerable expansion of Rhino’s 2009 six-CD set Woodstock 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur’s Farm, 50th Anniversary Experience is also a distillation of the gargantuan Woodstock: Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive, a box that re-creates the entire three-day festival over the course of 38 CDs (all that’s missing are two Jimi Hendrix tunes his estate chose not to license, along with some Sha Na Na that never was taped). While the 38-CD set is an immersive, transportive experience, it’s also by definition a box set that appeals only to archivist, scholars and fanatics-the kind of listeners who don’t think twice at digging through a weekend’s worth of music and stage announcements. This ten-disc set, however, is a great choice for listeners who want to get a feel for the entire sprawling festival without devoting more than a day of their life to listening to Woodstock.

 

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Live at Woodstock (2019) [Hi-Res]

Riding the success of their #1 album, Blood, Sweat & Tears hit the road, thrilling audiences with their punchy live performances. In August 1969, the group triumphantly appeared at Woodstock, performing ten songs from their first two albums, all of which had received frequent airplay on FM radio.

•     David Clayton-Thomas: vocals, guitar
•     Steve Katz: guitar, harmonica, vocals
•     Dick Halligan: keyboards, trombone, flute
•     Jerry Hyman: trombone
•     Fred Lipsius: alto saxophone, piano
•     Lew Soloff: trumpet, flugelhorn
•     Chuck Winfield: trumpet, flugelhorn
•     Jim Fielder: bass
•     Bobby Colomby: drums

1.     More And More
2.     Just One Smile
3.     Something’s Coming On
4.     I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know
5.     Spinning Wheel
6.     Sometimes In Winter
7.     Smiling Phases
8.     8. God Bless The Child
9.     And When I Die
10.     You’ve Made Me So Very Happy

 

VA - Woodstock - 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm [6 CD, 2009]

 

Woodstock - 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm is a 6-CD live box-set album of the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York. Its release marked the 40th Anniversary of the festival.

At six CDs, it is the most complete collection ever released of the festival. Every artist who performed at Woodstock is featured on the set, with the curious exception of Ten Years After, The Band and the Keef Hartley Band. Unlike Ten Years After and The Band, the Keef Hartley Band has never been featured on any Woodstock recording, nor were they featured in the film version.

After a labor-intensive process of reviewing every inch of multi-track tape, co-producer Andy Zax selected the very best from each of the thirty-three sets (thirty-two acts + the Abbie Hoffman appearance) and furthered the collection’s authenticity by including stage announcements, set banter, the sounds of rain, a cameo appearance by Abbie Hoffman, and the graciousness of Max Yasgur’s address to the crowd, heard for the first time in its entirety.

Over the years, many of the Woodstock albums have featured "doctored" recordings in which mistakes, feedback, and bad micing were either edited or re-recorded. This set features the recordings as close to the original versions as possible in order to simulate actually being at the festival.

John Sebastian - Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings (3 CD, 2001)

 

 

Rhino Handmade only issued 3,000 copies of this 3-CD box set.


As a bonus, disc-3 includes Sebastian's entire Woodstock performance. So you not only get "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" and "I Had a Dream" (which were included on the original Woodstock soundtrack), but you also get "How Have You Been" (from his--at the time--yet unreleased solo debut) and "Darlin' Be Home Soon" and "Younger Generation."

An additional bonus on disc-3 is six previously unreleased songs recorded in mono from an October 4, 1969, performance at Winterland in San Francisco. These live solo recordings include "Sitting on Top of the World," "Magical Connection," "You're a Big Boy Now," "I Found a Dream" (written by blues musician Lonnie Johnson, NOT the similarly titled "I Had a Dream," which Sebastian wrote for his solo debut), "Daydream" and "Younger Girl." All six of these are terrific performances--especially the bluegrass standard "Sittin' on Top of the World," where Sebastian does some fancy picking--a song he says he learned from Doc Watson.