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"Woodstock" is a song written by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. At least four versions of the song were released in 1970. At least four versions of the song were released in 1970. Mitchell's own version was first performed live in 1969 and appeared in April 1970 on her album Ladies of the Canyon and as the B-side to her ...
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival held on a 600-acre (2.4-km 2) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969.Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers.
Richie Havens performed a historical rendition of the song – retitled Freedom (Motherless Child) – on August 15, 1969 at the opening of the Woodstock festival. Elvis Presley used the first verse of the song to open the gospel sequence in his Comeback Special in 1968, sung by Darlene Love .
Crosby recorded a solo demo in March 1968 with the melody but no lyrics. Stills recorded his own demo the following month with most of the lyrics in place. This demo was subsequently released in 2007 on Stills' Just Roll Tape album. Both Jefferson Airplane and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performed the song in their sets at the 1969 Woodstock ...
Paul Robeson released the song on his albums Songs of Free Men (1943), [5] Paul Robeson: Favorite Songs (1959) and the live album Paul Robeson at Carnegie Hall (1959); Joan Baez performed the song at the Woodstock music festival in 1969 and later included it in her album, One Day at a Time [6] [7]
For the past seven years, the National has recorded nearly exclusively at group member Aaron Dessner’s Long Pond studio in upstate Hudson, N.Y., with the area’s beautiful scenery and serene ...
The song's lyrics implicitly blame American politicians, high-level military officers, and industry corporations on starting the Vietnam War. McDonald composed "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" in the summer of 1965, just as the U.S.'s military involvement was increasing, and was intensively opposed by the young generation. [6]
According to co-author David Porter, the reference to "Woodstock" in the song does not refer to the 1969 counter-cultural music festival (which took place two years after the song was released), but instead to a segregated rural vocational school in Millington, Tennessee, called Woodstock Training School. Porter, who did not attend the school ...