Were you too busy to attend Woodstock back in 1969? Maybe you weren’t born yet?
Well, you will soon be able to hear almost every song played during the three days of the festival in a new massive Woodstock box-set that is coming out to mark the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Titled Woodstock 50 — Back to the Garden — The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive, the box set will come on 38 discs and will feature almost 36 hours of recordings. The release will be comprised out of 432 songs, 267 of which were never officially released before.
The box-set will not only contain the full performances from The Who, Joe Cocker, Sly, and the Family and Stone, Crosby, Stills, and Nash & Young, but also the full sets from the Band, the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Janis Joplin, which have never been available before.
All the songs on the release will be arranged chronologically by both the day and set time.
“There have been large boxed sets devoted to particular eras or tours — the Grateful Dead do a great job of that sort of thing — but there’s never, to my knowledge, been an attempt to present a large-scale durational experience of this sort,” said Andy Zax, the Los Angeles producer and archivist who co-produced the set with Steve Woolard.
“The Woodstock tapes give us a singular opportunity for a kind of sonic time travel, and my intention is to transport people back to 1969. There aren’t many other concerts you could make this argument about.”
Woodstock 50 — Back to the Garden — The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive is coming on August 2nd, and you can check out the official trailer for the box set below.
