As I suspected, this past weekend, Bob Stroud revisited the Woodstock Music Festival, which was underway 40 years ago this weekend.
With the exception of some songs from people having birthdays and some live music, the main part of his show was devoted to music played at the festival or about it.
His comments follow the song and group/performer.
Come on in, my tie-dyed friend and join us at Woodstock, 40 years on as we travel back to Yasgur's farm and enjoy some of the performances that shook upstate New York 40 years ago this weekend. It is a Woodstock kind of a weekend right here on the Drive including the Rock and Roll Roots Program.
WOODSTOCK-- CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG-- Their version out in early 1970, right around the same time of Joni Mitchell's version. Of course, she the composer of the classic.
FREEDOM-- RICHIE HAVENS-- What better way to start our Woodstock 40 Years On presentation this morning on the Rock and Roll Roots Program than with the start of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival here on 97.1, the Drive. And, it started with the above-mentioned Richie Havens. Throwing Richie Havens out there almost by his lonesome to the hungry masses and warming them up. A couple hundred thousand people out there. Sounds like he got the gig done with "freedom."
COMING INTO LOS ANGELES-- ARLO GUTHRIE-- Just a little under two years before he hit the stage at Woodstock he made his mark with a recording called "Alice's Restaurant."
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS-- ARLO GUTHRIE-- 1972, a good old Steve Goodman song.
"Three Days of Music, and Nothing But Music." --RoadDog
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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