Woodstock Summer

Robert Burns famously wrote about “Mice and Men” in his 1785 poem “To A Mouse” saying “The best laid schemes of mice and men go oft awry.”

The famed music festival that took place in 1969 at Yasgur’s Farm near Woodstock, had little in common with Scotland’s own Bobby Burns, except for how many things did, indeed, “go oft awry.”

This is the subject of our latest podcast delving into all the interesting backstage happenings that played an important role in defining 1969 as the “Summer of Love.”

Join us as we discuss whose careers took off because of this history-making concert and share some of the iconic songs that helped tell the story.

Here are some of the songs we discuss in this episode of The Music Time Machine:

• Woodstock - Joni Mitchell

• Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane

• With a Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker

• The Weight - The Band

• And When I Die - Blood, Sweat & Tears

• Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills & Nash

• Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

• The Star Spangled Banner – The Jimi Hendrix Experience