Live at Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Live at Woodstock

| type = live

| artist = Jimi Hendrix

| cover = Live at Woodstock.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1999|07|6}}

| recorded = August 18, 1969

| venue = Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York

| genre = Rock

| length = 96:38

| label = MCA

| producer = Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, John McDermott

| prev_title = Live at the Fillmore East

| prev_year = 1999

| next_title = Live at Clark University

| next_year = 1999

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r422236 |title=Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock{{snd}}Review |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |website=allmusic.com |access-date=August 28, 2011}}

| rev2 = Rolling Stone

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jimihendrix/albums/album/224635/review/5943943/live_at_woodstock |title=Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock{{snd}}Music Reviews |first=Tom |last=Moon |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=August 28, 2011 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426102503/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jimihendrix/albums/album/224635/review/5943943/live_at_woodstock |archive-date=April 26, 2009 }}

|rev3 = Tom Hull – on the Web

|rev3Score = B+{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=n.d.|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=Jimi+Hendrix|title=Grade List: Jimi Hendrix|website=Tom Hull – on the Web|access-date=July 22, 2020}}

}}

Live at Woodstock is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released on July 6, 1999. It documents most of his performance at the Woodstock Festival on August 18, 1969, and contains Hendrix's iconic interpretation of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and other songs from the original festival film and soundtrack album.

Background and recording

Woodstock was Hendrix's first public performance since the breakup of the Jimi Hendrix Experience on June 29, 1969. At Woodstock, he was accompanied by an expanded lineup of backing musicians.Hendrix appeared on two American late-night television talk shows in July backed by studio musicians and Cox. {{cite book| last1 = McDermott| first1 = John| last2 = Kramer| first2 = Eddie| author-link2 = Eddie Kramer| last3 = Cox| first3 = Billy| author-link3 = Billy Cox| title = Ultimate Hendrix| publisher = Backbeat Books| location = New York City| year = 2009| isbn = 978-0-87930-938-1| page = 168}} The short-lived group has been informally referred to as "Gypsy Sun and Rainbows", after a comment Hendrix made during the performance:

{{blockquote|Dig, we'd like to get something straight. We got tired of the Experience{{nbsp}}... So we decided to change the whole thing around, and call it Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. Or short, it's nothin' but a Band of Gypsys.{{cite AV media notes| last = Fricke| first = David| author-link = David Fricke| year = 1999| title = Live at Woodstock| type = CD booklet| others = Jimi Hendrix| location = Universal City, California| publisher = MCA Records| id = MCAD2-11987| page = 8}}}}

Hendrix's set began at 9 a.m. and lasted for about two hours; he played to a dwindling Monday morning audience. The set closed the festival.{{cite web |url=https://www.wpi.edu/news/woodstock |title=Hendrix and Woodstock: 10 Little-Known Facts about the Performance That Defined the '60s |last=Brattin |first=Joel |publisher=Worcester Polytechnic Institute |date=June 28, 2019 |access-date=July 24, 2019}}

Releases and omissions

The album, produced by the family-run Experience Hendrix, supersedes the 1994 Woodstock album produced by Alan Douglas, which contains fewer and more edited tracks.{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r202237/review |title=Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock{{snd}}Review |first=Jason |last=Anderson |website=AllMusic |access-date=August 28, 2011}} As with the earlier release, the medley of "Gypsy Woman" with "Aware of Love" (both songs originally by the Impressions) and rhythm guitarist Larry Lee's composition "Mastermind" are not included. Lee's solo on "Red House" and Mitch Mitchell's drum solo on "Jam Back at the House" have been edited. A two-disc DVD version of the performance was issued on September 13, 2005, and a single-disc Blu-ray version was issued on November 25, 2008.

Track listing

All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted. Details are taken from the original Live at Woodstock MCA Records CD liner notes. Other releases may show different information.

{{Track listing

| headline = Disc one

| title1 = Introduction

| note1 = spoken, no music

| length1 = 2:21

| title2 = Message to Love

| length2 = 7:21

| title3 = Hear My Train A Comin{{'-}}

| length3 = 9:49

| title4 = Spanish Castle Magic

| length4 = 7:05

| title5 = Red House