
Sly & The Family Stone - The Woodstock Experience It's pretty safe to say that just about everyone at Woodstock was high, but I don't think anyone was higher than Sly Stone on Sunday August 17, 1969. That includes Jimi and Jerry "Captain Trips" Garcia. Sly was riding high on the charts with the incredible Stand! album and was starting to get really carried away with cocaine and his ego. Listening to the full performance of Sly & The Family Stone's full set from Woodstock, it's easy to see [...]

Johnny Winter The Woodstock Experience Sony/Legacy Review by Nightwatcher Definitely the whitest of all the white bluesmen, the Texas born albino guitarist Johnny Winter burst onto the scene in a big way in 1969. After a highly praising article in Rolling Stone magazine, he was signed to Columbia Records for a reported $300,000 a year in February. By May his second, self titled album, his first for the label, hit #24 on Billboard's Album Charts and a new guitar hero was on the scene. By August he had already played 6 large festivals in front of [...]