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This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival. Originally
the concert was designed as a profit-making venture to be held at Mills Industrial Park in upstate New York. As it became clear that hundreds of thousands of people would attend, it turned into a "free concert" held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, NY. The first stars to sign up to perform at the event were Creedence Clearwater Revival. Many popular bands of the era declined to perform because there was little indication of the importance the event would eventually assume. The festival was filmed and made into a documentary that won an Academy Award in 1970. Every decade, there have been peaceful namesake events. However, the festival in 1999 was highly commercialized and ended badly with a fire.

Check out our CDs for several of the performers at Woodstock Festival 1969:

Ultimate Santana is a compilation album that features ths smash hits -- "Smooth," "Maria Maria'" "Black Magic Woman," and "Oye Como Va."

The Very Best of Grateful Dead is a 17 track disc collection offering a very good overview of the Dead's greatest hits including "Truckin'" and "Touch of Grey."

Bayou Country Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fantasy Records has taken a selection of CCR's albums and reissued them in a digitally remasterd format with rare and previously unreleased bonus material supplementing each release.

The Essential Janis Joplin - This two disc album includes many live recordings of Joplin's performances. There are songs from her previous albums that have been remastered to sound flawless. This includes the hits that you would expect like "Summertime," "Kozmic Blues," and "Mercedes Benz."

The Who scored 16 Top 40 hits in the U.S. between 1967 and 1982. This greatest hits disc includes "I Can See For Miles, " "Won't Get Fooled Again," and the ultimate punk anthem "My Generation."

The Essential Jefferson Airplane - This 32 track compilation covers the band's seven albums and two live offerings. This is a well chosen selection with first rate liner notes that highlight the Airplane's diverse influences as it echoed and exemplified the turbulent end of the '60s and the beginning of the '70s.

What Goes Up!: The Best of Blood, Sweat and Tears - This 2-disc compilation contains 32 of Blood Sweat and Tears' greatest hits. Their 1969 self-titled album won Album of The Year at the Grammy Awards, beating The Beatles' Abbey Road. The commercial and critical acclaim enjoyed by the band in 1969 culminated in an appearance at the Woodstock Festival, in which it enjoyed headliner status.

Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock is a 2-disc collection of highlights from Hendrix's legendary closing set at Woodstock. With classics -- "Message To Love," "Foxey Lady," and "Purple Haze."

Hits /Joni Mitchell Athough she did not appear at the Woodstock Festival, she did write the classic tune "Woodstock," which appears on this greatest hits CD along with "River," and "Big Yellow Taxi."