This summer marks the 40th anniversary of 1969's historic Woodstock Music And Arts Festival. As part of the celebration, Sony/Legacy Recordings is releasing a limited edition series of deluxe, double disc recordings by five of the artists whose performances at Woodstock changed the world.
Dubbed The Woodstock Experience, each double-CD set pairs a classic 1969 album from the featured artist, along with their full festival performance. All of the concert recordings — by Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Sly And The Family Stone, and Santana — appear on these CDs in their entirety for the first time ever. All are packaged in eco-friendly sleeves that include a mini-version of the original album cover and a 16 X 20 inch double-sided fold-out poster. With this series, which we are also calling The Woodstock Experience, Blogcritics will be reviewing each of these commemorative sets.
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Johnny is joined by brother Edgar at Woodstock for a white-hot set of Texas blues.
When you have an instrument as great as the voice of Janis Joplin, why would you emphasize anything else?
Sly And The Family Stone's amazing Woodstock set is simply in a class all its own.
By the time they got to Woodstock, Carlos and company would become pretty much set for life.
Jefferson Airplane opens our series on the new Woodstock Experience double disc sets from Legacy.