Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More
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Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More is the live album of the 1969 Woodstock concert. Originally released on Atlantic Records' Cotillion label as a set of 3 LPs in 1970 (later reissued on the Atlantic label), it was re-released as a double CD in 1994. This triple album set of the monumental outdoor concert features Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performing live for only the second time. The song "Sea Of Madness" by Neil Young is not available on any other authorized recording; the actual version heard on the record, however, was in fact recorded a month after the festival at the Fillmore East auditorium in New York City.
A second collection of recordings from the festival, Woodstock 2, was released a year later. In 1994 the songs from both albums, as well as numerous additional, previously-unreleased performances from the festival, but not the stage announcements and crowd noises, were reissued by Atlantic as a 4-CD box set titled Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music. In 2009, Rhino Records issued a 6-CD box, Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm, which includes further musical performances as well as stage announcements and other ancillary material.
