Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix album)
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Released | August 20, 1994 | |||
Recorded | August 18, 1969 | |||
Venue | Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 63:46 | |||
Label | MCA - Polydor | |||
Producer | Alan Douglas | |||
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Woodstock is a live album by Jimi Hendrix released posthumously on August 20, 1994. It presents some of Hendrix's performance at Woodstock Festival on August 18, 1969. The album was replaced by a more-complete version in 1999 titled Live at Woodstock, albeit with some of the performances edited.
Critical reception
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New Musical Express | 5/10[3] |
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The Village Voice | A−[5] |
In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau said the under-rehearsed, highly eccentric music on Woodstock makes for what was a transitional but all-important live album by Hendrix: "All in all, your basic rock concert as act of flawed genius. Does this kind of thing happen any more? Not on such a scale for sure."[5]
Although Live at Woodstock (1999) was later released as a more comprehensive record of Hendrix's performance, Christgau felt the "condensed reconfiguration" offered by the 1994 album magnified the concert's "aura".[2] AllMusic's Jason Anderson was less enthusiastic, deeming it "very significant" but not very well recorded, with fairly dull versions of "Fire" and "Purple Haze".[1]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks are written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Introduction" | 1:56 |
2. | "Fire" | 3:53 |
3. | "Izabella" | 5:10 |
4. | "Hear My Train A Comin' (Get My Heart Back Together Again)" | 9:16 |
5. | "Red House" | 5:40 |
6. | "Jam Back at the House (Beginnings)" | 7:58 |
7. | "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" / "Stepping Stone" | 12:49 |
8. | "Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith) | 3:42 |
9. | "Purple Haze" | 3:25 |
10. | "Woodstock Improvisation" | 4:59 |
11. | "Villanova Junction" | 3:04 |
12. | "Farewell" | 1:54 |
Personnel
[edit]- Jimi Hendrix – lead guitar, vocals
- Mitch Mitchell – drums
- Billy Cox – bass guitar
- Larry Lee – rhythm guitar
- Juma Sultan – percussion
- Jerry Velez – percussion
References
[edit]- ^ a b Anderson, Jason (2011). "Woodstock - Jimi Hendrix | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
- ^ a b Christgau, Robert (December 2005). "Back Catalogue: Jimi Hendrix". Blender. New York. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
- ^ Harris, John (6 August 1994). "Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock". New Musical Express. p. 37.
- ^ Evans, Paul; Brackett, Nathan (2004). "Jimi Hendrix". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 374-75. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
- ^ a b Christgau, Robert (February 21, 1995). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved June 21, 2014.