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WOODSTOCK SETLIST, DAY ONE
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1969, BETHEL, N.Y.
Richie Havens
1. Minstrel From Gault
2. High Flyin’ Bird
3. I Can’t Make It Anymore
4. With A Little Help
5. Strawberry Fields For Ever
6. Hey Jude
7. I Had A Woman
8. Handsome Johnny
9. Freedom
Sweetwater
1. Motherless Child
2. Look Out
3. For Pete’s Sake
4. Day Song
5. What’s Wrong
6. Crystal Spider
7. Two Worlds
8. Why Oh Why
Bert Sommer
1. Jennifer
2. The Road To Travel
3. I wondered where you’d be
4. She’s Gone
5. Things Are Going My Way
6. And When It’s Over
7. Jeanette
8. America (first standing ovation at Woodstock)
9. A Note That Read
10. Smile
Tim Hardin
1. Misty Roses
2. If I Were A Carpenter
Ravi Shankar
1. Raga Puriya-Dhanashri / Gat In Sawarital
2. Tabla Solo In Jhaptal
3. Raga Manj Kmahaj / Alap Jor / Dhun In Kaharwa Tal / Medium & Fast Gat In Teental
Melanie
1. Beautiful People
2. Birthday Of The Sun
Arlo Guthrie
1. Coming Into Los Angeles
2. Walking Down The Line
3. Amazing Grace
Joan Baez
1. Joe Hill
2. Sweet Sir Galahad
3. Drug Store Truck Driving Man
4. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
5. We Shall Overcome
MORE HUFFPO ON 1969
“Woodstock was just one major event with national impact that blasted through 1969. The final year of the tumultuous sixties included discordant Richard Milhous Nixon succeeding Lyndon Baines Johnson as 37th president of the United States. US troops stationed in Vietnam crested at 543,000. Three hundred students stormed and occupied Harvard University’s administration building in a spellbinding demonstration of street theater. Charles Manson’s LSD-crazed cult executed actress Sharon Tate and seven others, including Tate’s unborn child. And this was all before a turbulent autumn featuring the largest peaceful protest in US history on October 15, the first Vietnam War Moratorium. And that’s not even close to half of it.” – Brent Green
ME ON HUFFPO
Here’s my op-ed on the Woodstock festival and its legacies: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-kirkpatrick/the-alpha-and-the-omega-o_b_257944.html
MORE POT, SKINNY-DIPPING, FREEDOM ROCK…
The second part of the Woodstock chapter excerpt from 1969: The Year Everything Changed appears on PopMatters today at: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/108471-pot-skinny-dipping-and-freedom-rock-woodstock-and-the-year-of-the-ou/P0/
POT, SKINNY-DIPPING, AND FREEDOM ROCK
Thanks to PopMatters and editor Sarah Zupko for excerpting from the chapter on Woodstock and the Year of the Outdoor Music Festival in 1969: The Year Everything Changed. The excerpt appears today and tomorrow in two parts:
‘1969′ IN THE SUMMER OF ‘09
Be on the lookout this summer for 1969: The Year Everything Changed at Barnes and Noble, where the book will be featured in a special promotion to commemorate the 40th anniversary of that eventful “Summer of ‘69″!
The moon landing…Woodstock…the Amazin’ Mets…Easy Rider…Charles Manson…and more. The stories from that summer grabbed the headlines and left indelible impressions upon an entire generation of Americans. As the subtitle implies, 1969 left our nation forever changed.
- Rob