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Songs and a Celebration Keep Joyous Spirit Alive A SoundPress.net Feature Article by Rich and Laura Lynch The spirit of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair of 1969 resonates 40 summers later, as if it were just yesterday.
 Photos by: Ken Regan (Santana), Henry Diltz (Janis Joplin), Shelly Rusten (crowd) In 1969, five acts recorded albums for the Columbia, Epic, and RCA labels (divisions of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT) and brought their music to Max Yasgur's farm that summer. For the first time, THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE couples those albums with music from the festival, providing a pocket portrait of what each artist and band was experiencing during 1969. Now available at all physical and digital retail outlets - in newly-designed eco-friendly 2CD packages - will be the following five titles: JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE: (RCA/Legacy) Includes Volunteers, their sixth and final album with the original lineup before all the changes came in 1970, with "We Can Be Together," "Good Shepherd," "Wooden Ships," "Eskimo Blue Day," and the title tune; coupled with 13 songs from their Sunday wee-hours set at the festival, including six previously unissued live tracks. JANIS JOPLIN - THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE: (Columbia/Legacy) Includes I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, her first and only solo album released during her lifetime, with "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)," the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody," and Rodgers & Hart's "Little Girl Blue"; coupled with her entire 10-song festival set, including three previously unissued live tracks. SANTANA - THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE : (Columbia/Legacy) Includes the debut Santana LP, with "Evil Ways," "Savor," "Persuasion," "Soul Sacrifice," and Olatunji's "Jingo"; coupled with their entire 8-song set, including one previously unissued live track. SLY & THE FAMILY STONE - THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE: (Epic/Legacy) Includes their breakthrough fourth album, Stand!, with "Everyday People," "Sing A Simple Song," "Stand!" and "I Want To Take You Higher"; coupled with their entire 8-song set, including seven previously unissued live tracks. JOHNNY WINTER - THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE: (Columbia/Legacy) Includes the debut Johnny Winter solo LP, with homages to Robert Johnson ("When You Got A Good Friend"), Sonny Boy Williamson ("Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"), Lightnin' Hopkins ("Back Door Friend") and B.B. King ("Be Careful With A Fool"); coupled with eight songs from his Sunday evening set at the festival, including seven previously unissued live tracks. Each THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE disc will be packaged inside a mini-LP cover with inner paper sleeves: CD-one replicating the front and back covers of the original LP, and CD-two featuring iconic photography of the artist performing at the festival. These mini-LPs will be housed in a paper-board slipcase sharing continuity of design recognition across all five packages. The slipcase will also contain a two-sided 16x20-inch fold-out poster, with one side displaying iconic photography of the artist performing at the festival, and the other side displaying a classic crowd shot of the audience. The upcoming 40th anniversary celebration includes such highly-anticipated projects as Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock (which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, starring Demetri Martin, Liev Schreiber and Emile Hirsch, via Focus Features); and Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang's The Road To Woodstock, written with Holly George-Warren (on HarperCollins' Ecco imprint). Announced in April, Sony Music Entertainment has teamed with Woodstock Ventures to launch Woodstock.com - the official website for the Woodstock community - a cutting edge live music social network for all concerts, including complete artist and event information, access to ticketing, concert reviews, music, blogs, and a forum to connect with other fan events throughout the world. There will be platforms for environmental initiatives, social issues, and other current topics. Visitors to the site can meet on a virtual village green, a platform for developing initiatives about global warming, carbon emissions, and responsible energy use. Woodstock.com will feature a cutting edge live music social network for all concerts, including complete artist and event information, access to ticketing, concert reviews, blogs and a forum to connect with other fan events throughout the world. There will be platforms for environmental initiatives, social issues, and other current topics. Visitors to the site can meet on a virtual village green, a platform for developing initiatives about global warming, carbon emissions, and responsible energy use. A special interactive portion of the site will make clear to the world which issues are of the greatest importance to the Woodstock community. And of course, the site will be the ultimate source for all things Woodstock -- exclusive interviews, guest editors, audio-visual content, rare photographs and other memorabilia with an online store offering a wide variety of goods including fine art prints of never-before-seen photography, music, film, collectables, apparel and books. Woodstock.com will also offer a platform where fans can share their experiences from all of the Woodstock Festivals ('69,'94 & '99) as well as other live concert events. Woodstock.com will also premiere WikiStock, an interactive wiki-style encyclopedia of all things Woodstock, which will accept and incorporate contributions about the individual experiences visitors have had at Woodstock festivals over the years. Woodstock.com is being created under the auspices of Michael Lang and Joel Rosenman, two of the founders of the Woodstock Festival. The launch of Woodstock.com is planned to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, the historic weekend that showed the world how the youth of America could unite in peace and music. "Woodstock began as a dream and became a reality that exceeded our wildest expectations," said Michael Lang. "That dream lives on and our hope is that Woodstock.com will harness the power of 21st century technology to the communal idealism and values that continue to grow out of Woodstock." Joel Rosenman added, "Like the Woodstock Festival, Woodstock.com is designed with the Woodstock community in mind -- a destination for music, social issues, memories and hopes, and above all, a place to have fun. And, like the festival, the website will change and evolve. The Woodstock community will see right away that Woodstock.com is not only a place, it's a pathway for a fascinating journey." "The original Woodstock festival shaped the musical and cultural values of a generation," said Adam Block, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. "We at Sony Music are grateful for the opportunity to partner with Woodstock Ventures in bringing the heritage and spirit of Woodstock Nation into the future." The spirit of the Woodstock Generation continues to be a thriving and dynamic force in society because the communal ideas expressed in the music of those artists still resounds loud and clear. The social and political and cultural concerns that informed their lives and music in 1969 are still with us today. And there has never been any better way of experiencing the tumultuous events of 1969 than through the music.
 Photos by: Elliott Landy (Johnny Winter), Henry Diltz (Michael Lang), Jason Laure (Santana) Related Links: For more information on WOODSTOCK and the other organizations mentioned please visit the following links -- Woodstock.com | Watch Trailer | Janis Joplin | Jefferson Airplane | Johnny Winter | Santana | Sly & The Family Stone
 (Originally Published on July 04, 2009) |
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