"We're all still at Woodstock"
--Richie Havens
The year was 1969. Richard Nixon was in the White House. Neil Armstrong
was on the Moon. And revolution was in the air. In that backdrop,
500,000 young people gathered on a mid-August weekend in upstate New
York for the promise of three days of peace and music. What they
experienced at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was something far
greater.
Celebrating "the greatest peaceful event in history," Woodstock 50th
Anniversary: Back to Yasgur's Farm offers a dazzlingly and compelling
front-row seat to the most important concert in rock history, an
implausible happening filled with trials and triumphs that defined a
generation.
Author and Woodstock attendee Mike Greenblatt brilliantly captures the
power of music's greatest performers such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin,
Joe Cocker, Santana and the Who, while sharing stories both personal and
audacious from the crowd of a half million strong who embraced not only
the music but each other.
The book features a Foreword by Country Joe McDonald, whose rousing solo
acoustic version of "The Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag"
was one of the most memorable performances at Woodstock. In addition,
all 32 performances at the festival are showcased.
Equal parts circus and surreal, Woodstock 50th Anniversary: Back to
Yasgur's Farm tells a transcendent tale of a musical and mythical
moment in time.
