Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix album)

Woodstock
Live album by
Jimi Hendrix
ReleasedAugust 20, 1994 (1994-08-20)
RecordedAugust 18, 1969
VenueWoodstock Festival, Bethel, New York
GenreRock
Length63:46
LabelMCA - Polydor
ProducerAlan Douglas
Jimi Hendrix chronology
Blues
(1994) 		Woodstock
(1994) 		Voodoo Soup
(1995)

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

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Blender[2]
New Musical Express5/10[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]
The Village VoiceA−[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

All tracks are written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted

No.TitleLength
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

References

  1. ^ a b Anderson, Jason (2011). "Woodstock - Jimi Hendrix | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
  2. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (December 2005). "Back Catalogue: Jimi Hendrix". Blender. New York. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
  3. ^ Harris, John (6 August 1994). "Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock". New Musical Express. p. 37.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (February 21, 1995). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved June 21, 2014.
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