Live at Woodstock

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Live at Woodstock
Live at Woodstock cover
Live album by Jimi Hendrix
Released July 6, 1999
Recorded August 18, 1969 at Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, USA
Genre Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock
Length 96:38
Label MCA
Producer Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer and John McDermott
Professional reviews
Jimi Hendrix chronology
Live at the Fillmore East
(1999)
Live at Woodstock
(1999)
Live at Clark University
(1999)

Live at Woodstock is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released on July 6, 1999. The album documents Hendrix's performance with his band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows at Woodstock Festival on August 18, 1969. Many of the tracks on this album were released in 1994 on Woodstock. Apart from the cover of "Gypsy Woman" (The Impressions) an "Mastermind", both of which were sung by rhythm guitarist Larry Lee, Live at Woodstock contains the full set played by the band.

The recording, sound mix and the 1999 remix were completed by Eddie Kramer, who has pointed out that the conditions were primitive; in view of that, the result has been acclaimed, though the radical editing results in the group sound being reduced to a three piece of Hendrix, Cox and Mitchell. Lee, as noted above, and the two percussionists are essentially edited out of the mix. The original recording of the complete performance can be heard on several bootleg releases and the full group is clearly audible, notably on "Jam Back At The House" (aka "Beginnings"), where the volume of the two percussionists and Lee's guitar are noticeably a part of the whole.

Contents

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All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Introduction" – 2:21
  2. "Message to Love" – 7:21
  3. "Hear My Train A Comin'" – 9:49
  4. "Spanish Castle Magic" – 7:05
  5. "Red House" – 5:24
  6. "Lover Man" – 5:11
  7. "Foxy Lady" – 5:06
  8. "Jam Back at the House" (Mitch Mitchell) – 7:44

[edit] Disc two

  1. "Izabella" – 6:42
  2. "Fire" – 3:42
  3. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" – 13:40
  4. "The Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith) – 3:43
  5. "Purple Haze" – 4:23
  6. "Woodstock Improvisation" – 3:59
  7. "Villanova Junction" – 4:28
  8. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) – 5:22

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