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Sweetwater was released in 1968 with the catalog number RS #6313, just getting into the national charts at number 200 where it would stay for two weeks. With the album, two singles, "Motherless Child b/w "Why Oh Why and "My Crystal Spider" b/w "What's Wrong" preceded it, both of which failed to chart.
Sweetwater was an American rock band originally from Los Angeles, California. They were the act scheduled to open the Woodstock festival in 1969 but were delayed by traffic, so folk singer Richie Havens 's trio became the first act to perform.
Sweetwater recorded the song on their self-titled debut album, and often opened their live performances with it. Richie Havens performed a historical rendition of the song – retitled Freedom (Motherless Child) – on August 15, 1969 at the opening of the Woodstock festival.
Havens continued playing because the musicians after him were delayed by traffic, including the originally scheduled opening act, Sweetwater. [12] Havens concluded his set by riffing off the old spiritual "Motherless Child". In an interview with Cliff Smith, for Music-Room, Havens explained:
A sicko from New Jersey allegedly took part in a neo-Nazi child-porn ring whose members groomed children online and extorted them to send self-produced, sexually-explicit videos, federal ...
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.
Over 900 mobile home owners in Sweetwater, Florida were handed move-out notices amid plans to transform park — they’ve been offered $14,000 to leave by Jan. 31, residents say they need more.
For the sake of her sanity — and the classroom carpet — elementary teacher Amy McMahon is begging parents to stop sending their kids to school with syrup-filled grenades. “I have a PSA for ...