“Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More” released on this date, May 11th, 1970, infamously performed and recorded between August 15-18, 1969. Woodstock is one of my kinda-guilty pleasures, a holdover from my brief hippie phase during college in the late 80′s/early 90′s; I’m pretty sure my roommate or one of her boyfriends had this LP (this copy is a relatively new acquisition the Vault and I don’t think my parents had it, mainly because my dad HATES Jimi Hendrix and his version of “The Star Spangled Banner” in particular). There’s some stuff on here that I really don’t like like “At the Hop” by Sha-Na-Na, Joan Baez and Jeffrey Shurtleff singing “Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man” and the never-ending “Love March” by Butterfield Blues Band. (I used to really loathe Joe Cocker’s cover of The Beatles’ “With a Little Help From My Friends” until the early days of You Tube when this misheard lyrics video of the Woodstock performance came out and I laughed so hard I had tears rolling.) But there are some amazing performances as well, like Richie Havens’  impassioned “Freedom (Motherless Child),” the raw, red-eyed “Coming Into Los Angeles” by Arlo Guthrie, Jefferson Airplane’s “Volunteers” and most especially “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” by Crosby, Stills & Nash. It was the one of first times they performed the track (Woodstock was the second time they ever played in front of people and they were “scared shitless”), they fuck it up a bit but it’s still my favorite rendition of the track.