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• Woodstock 50 - Back to the Garden: the Anniversary Experience Day 1 (live at Woodstock, Bethel, N.... Live at Woodstock, Bethel, NY, 8/15/1969

  Havens, Richie

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  Day one of the festival featured Richie Havens, Sweetwater, Ravi Shankar and others.

• Woodstock 50 - Back to the Garden: the Anniversary Experience Day 2 (live at Woodstock, Bethel, N..

  Morris, John

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  Day two of the festival featured Country Joe McDonald, Santana, Canned Heat and the Grateful Dead and others.

• Woodstock 50 - Back to the Garden: the Anniversary Experience Day 3 (live at Woodstock, Bethel, N..

  Wavy Gravy

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  Day three of the festival featured The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and others.

• The Best of Joan C. Baez

  Baez, Joan

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  The female counterpart to Bob Dylan, folksinger and anti-war protester Joan Baez, was the last act on Friday evening. She started at about 1:00 am and features an arrangement with songs of peaceful protest such as "I Shall Be Released" and "We Shall…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blessings and Miracles

  Santana (Musical group),

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  Relatively unknown for their audience, Santana brought the Latin Rock Fusion to Woodstock. Santana added a massive percussion element to their set, especially on the song, “Soul Sacrifice”.

• The Grateful Dead (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

  Grateful Dead (Musical group)

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  The Grateful Dead are their own phenomenon. Influenced by Blues, Jazz, Country, Folk and of course Rock ‘N’ Roll, they used to stretch their compositions to incredible lengths, improvising solos and lyrics. They played five songs and their set…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits (24-karat Gold Disc)

  Revival, Creedence Clearwater

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  Creedence Clearwater Revival’s catchy music was one of the true highlights of the whole festival. However, John Fogerty complained that the long set of The Grateful Dead delayed their set so most of the audience went to bed when CCR performed in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tommy

  Original Soundtrack Recording

  Townshend, Pete

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  The Who played their exceptional Tommy album, a Rock Opera dealing with the struggle of a deaf, dumb and blind boy who later finds a cure and gains stardom with his messianic movement. The finale of this performance took place during sunrise which…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thirty Seconds Over Winterland

  Jefferson Airplane (Musical group)

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  The biggest band of the San Francisco music scene at the time, combining rock, blues with psychedelia.

• The Band

  Band (Musical group),

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  One of the most appreciated bands, The Band, were known for Folk-Rock, almost better than most US-based Folk bands, succeeding their mentor and former employer Bob Dylan.

• CSNY 1974

  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young,

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  Woodstock was the second time CSNY performed live in public and their recording of the Joni Mitchell song memorializing Woodstock would later become a hit and the recording most associated with the festival.

• Band of Gypsys

  Hendrix, Jimi

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  Due to several delays, they eventually played on Monday morning, 9:00AM, when most of the audience had already left, however, Hendrix performed his own guitar-laden version of the "Star-Spangled Banner," revolutionary at the time.