Joe McDonald
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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
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For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for three days and was absorbed into American myth. As depicted...
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"Issued in conjunction with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's 2015-2016 exhibition 'Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City, ' this compilation explores the outstanding artistry of the accomplished session musicians who were working in Nashville in the late sixties and early seventies"--Booklet.