VA - Woodstock 40: 3 Days Of Peace & Music
Label: Rhino
Released: August 17, 2009
Format: [email protected]
Disc 1 includes Box Set Booklet
Running Time:7 hours 49 minutes (6 discs)

In celebration of the landmark festival's 40th anniversary, Rhino released Woodstock-40 Years On: Back To Yasgur’s Farm Boxed Set, the most comprehensive collection of Woodstock performances ever. Sequenced in the chronological order in which they occurred, the 77-song, six-CD boxed set contains 38 previously unreleased recordings. After a labor-intensive process of reviewing every inch of multi-track tape, co-producer Andy Zax selected the very best from each of the 33 sets and furthered the collection's authenticity by including stage announcements, set banter, the sounds of rain, a cameo appearance by Abbie Hoffman, and the graciousness of Max Yasgur's address to the crowd, heard for the first time in its entirety. 

Disc 1:

01. Richie Havens - Handsome Johnny
02. Richie Havens - Freedom
03. John Morris - Speech: 'Choppity Choppity'
04. Sweetwater - Look Out
05. Sweetwater - Two Worlds
06. Bert Sommer - Jennifer
07. Bert Sommer - And When It's Over
08. Bert Sommer - Smile
09. John Morris - Speech: 'There Goes Marilyn!'
10. Tim Hardin - Hang On To A Dream
11. Tim Hardin - Simple Song Of Freedom
12. John Morris - Speech: 'Flat Blue Acid'
13. Ravi Shankar - Raga Puriya-Dhanashri / Gat In Sawarital
14. Melanie - Momma Momma
15. Melanie - Beautiful People
16. Melanie - Birthday Of The Sun
17. Arlo Guthrie - Coming Into Los Angeles
18. Arlo Guthrie - Wheel Of Fortune
19. Arlo Guthrie - Every Hand In The Land
20. John Morris - Speech: 'All You Funny People'
Hippies, yippies and yuppies flocked to Yasgur's Farm in 1969 in search of music and a good time, but as the big name bands rolled in so did the crowds (a half million people!) - and so it was that a relatively small “aquarian exposition” transformed into a counterculture movement that changed rock'n'roll history forever. 
  
Disc 2:

01. Joan Baez - Joe Hill
02. Joan Baez - Sweet Sir Galahad
03. Joan Baez - Hickory Wind
04. Joan Baez feat. Jeffrey Shurtleff - Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
05. John Morris - Speech: 'Bring Scully His Asthma Pills'
06. John Morris - Speech: 'Insulin' & Quill - Intro
07. Quill - They Live The Life
08. Quill - That's How I Eat
09. Chip Monk - Speech: 'I Understand Your Wife Is Having A Baby'
10. Country Joe McDonald - Donovan's Reef
11. Country Joe McDonald - The 'Fish' Cheer + I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
12. Santana - Persuasion
13. Santana - Soul Sacrifice
14. John B. Sebastian - How Have You Been
15. John B. Sebastian - Rainbows All Over Your Blues
16. John B. Sebastian - I Had A Dream
17. The Incredible String Band - The Letter
18. The Incredible String Band - When You Find Out Who You Are
19. Chip Monk - Speech: 'She Is Lost'

Mud, mayhem and music defined the summer of '69 at Yasgur's farm.
A counter-culture convergence, Woodstock's "3 Days of Peace and Music" drew in an unexpected half a million people in the field and an unprecedented lineup of artists on the stage, changing rock 'n' roll history forever. 
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Disc 3

01. Chip Monck - Speech: 'We're In Pretty Good Shape'
02. Canned Heat - Going Up The Country
03. Canned Heat - Woodstock Boogie
04. Chip Monck - Speech: 'The Brown Acid Is Not Specifically Too Good'
05. Mountain - Blood Of The Sun
06. Mountain - Theme For An Imaginary Western
07. Mountain - For Yasgur's Farm
08. Chip Monck - Speech: 'For Those Of You Who Have Partaken Of The Green Acid'
09. Jerry Garcia & Country Joe McDonald - Green Acid Advice
10. Grateful Dead - Dark Star
11. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
12. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising

Highlights from this extraordinary collection are plentiful, but stand-outs certainly include never-before-released tracks and previously unissued full-length versions of performances by Ravi Shanker, Country Joe McDonald, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, Joe Cocker, Country Joe & The Fish, The Butterfield Blues Band, and Sha Na Na. 

Disc 4:

01. Janis Joplin - Work Me, Lord
02. Janis Joplin - Ball And Chain
03. Sly & The Family Stone - Medley: Dance To The Music / Music Lover / I Want To Take You Higher
04. Abbie Hoffman - Speech: 'The Politics Of The Situation'
05. The Who - Amazing Journey
06. The Who - Pinball Wizard
07. The Who - Speech: 'Abbie Hoffman vs. Pete Townshend'
08. The Who - We're Not Gonna Take It
09. Jefferson Airplane - The Other Side Of This Life
10. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love
11. Jefferson Airplane - Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon
12. Grace Slick - We Got A Whole Lot Of Orange
13. Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
14. Wavy Gravy - Speech: 'Breakfast In Bed For 400,000'
15. John Morris - It Just Keeps Goin'
16. Max Yasgur - Speech: 'Max Yasgur Speaks'

By Wednesday, August 13, some 60,000 people had already arrived and set up camp. On Friday, the roads were so clogged with cars that performing artists had to arrive by helicopter. Though over 100,000 tickets were sold prior to the festival weekend, they became unnecessary as swarms of people descended on the concert grounds to take part in this historic and peaceful happening. Four days of music… half a million people… rain, and the rest is history.

Disc 5:

01. Joe Cocker - Feelin' Alright
02. Joe Cocker - Let's Go Get Stoned
03. Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
04. The Rainstorm
05. Country Joe & The Fish - Rock & Soul Music
06. Country Joe & The Fish - Love
07. Country Joe & The Fish - Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
08. Country Joe & The Fish - Summer Dresses
09. Country Joe & The Fish - Silver And Gold
10. Country Joe & The Fish - Rock & Soul Music (Reprise)
11. Johnny Winter - Leland Mississippi Blues
12. Johnny Winter - Mean Town Blues
13. Blood, Sweat & Tears - You've Made Me So Very Happy

Joni Mitchell said, "Woodstock was a spark of beauty" where half-a-million kids "saw that they were part of a greater organism." According to Michael Lang, one of four young men who formed Woodstock Ventures to produce the festival, "That's what means the most to me – the connection to one another felt by all of us who worked on the festival, all those who came to it, and the millions who couldn't be there but were touched by it."

Disc 6:

01. Crosby Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
02. Crosby Stills & Nash - Guinnevere
03. Crosby Stills & Nash - Marrakesh Express
04. Crosby Stills & Nash - 4 + 20
05. Crosby Stills & Nash - Sea Of Madness
06. Crosby Stills & Nash - Wooden Ships
07. The Butterfield Blues Band - No Amount Of Loving
08. The Butterfield Blues Band - Love March
09. The Butterfield Blues Band - Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
10. Sha Na Na - Get A Job
11. Sha Na Na - At The Hop
12. Sha Na Na - Get A Job (Reprise)
13. Jimi Hendrix - The Star Spangled Banner, Purple Haze, Woodstock
14. Chip Monk - Speech: 'Woodstock Farewell'