“Woodstock,” with its “got to get ourselves back to the garden” refrain, was, and remains, a song of hope and positivity, a celebration of a generation whose dreams still seemed to reside within the realm of possibility. Joni Mitchell composed the song based on what she had heard from her then-boyfriend Graham Nash about the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. Then that line was replaced with "we are caught in the devil's bargain" in the last chorus, which was also in Mitchell's final chorus. In November 1970, "Woodstock" by Matthews Southern Comfort had its US single release on the group's regular US label, Decca Records, another MCA affiliate. Although Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young had learned the song from Nash's girlfriend Mitchell herself, the band's version introduced major changes in tone. She composed it in a hotel room in New York City, watching televised reports of the festival. The solo performance can be seen in the festival concert film Celebration at Big Sur, released in 1971. Mitchell's original version featured a stark and haunting arrangement – a solo vocal, multi-tracked backing vocals, and a tremoloed Wurlitzer electric piano, all performed by Mitchell. Tony Blackburn, who had the breakfast show on Radio 1, played 'Woodstock' and kept playing it and other DJs started doing the same. But by the time of the North American success of Matthews Southern Comfort's "Woodstock", the band was no more: an October 1970 shake-up at MCA Records (UK) had resulted in Matthews Southern Comfort splitting with MCA – with the resultant cancellation of a US tour set to begin that November, the month of "Woodstock's" US single release[17] – and in December 1970 Matthews had abruptly quit. That at Woodstock “everywhere was a song and a celebration” evokes the centrality to the hippie movement of music and communal celebration of it and with it. I left the building, walked down to the station, got on a train home and locked my door for a week. In other territories two further tracks were issued as singles from the third and final Matthews Southern Comfort album Later That Same Year – which outside the British Isles included "Woodstock" – : "Mare, Take Me Home" and "Tell Me Why" both of which just made the Billboard Hot 100 at respectively #96 and #98, while "Mare, Take Me Home" peaked at #86 in Canada (Matthews Southern Comfort had a total of four US single releases, having had one non-charting US single: "Colorado Springs Eternal", in April 1970). Woodstock, for some reason, impressed me as being a modern miracle, like a modern-day fishes-and-loaves story. Three versions of the song were released in the same year, 1970. (function() { [9] A different recording of "Woodstock" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was played under the closing credits of the documentary film Woodstock released March 1970. This version opens with a lead guitar lick played by Neil Young,[citation needed] who also plays the solo. “We are billion year old carbon” is a strong environmental metaphor: humans as just another part of the natural carbon ecosystem — a concept popular with hippies. Neil Young is not seen in the Woodstock movie even though he was there for part of the set. "Wonderwall" peaked at #8 in 1996. ", "flavour of new zealand – search listener", http://www.pauseandplay.com/iain-matthews-finds-his-southern-comfort/, "Music from the 60's and 70's - Iain Matthews", Cash Box Top 100 Singles, 17 October 1970, The Irish Charts – Search Results – Woodstock", "South African Rock Lists Website SA Charts 1969 – 1989 Acts (M)", "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 26, 1970", "America Goes Under Cover With Album of Favorites", "Q & A with Gerry Beckley & Dewey Bunnell", Amchitka, The 1970 Concert That Launched Greenpeace, Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. Additionally, the lyrics "We are stardust, we are golden" seem to fit the situation at that time as Woodstock was signaling the end of … “We are caught in the devil’s bargain” is tough. The second release that year was by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; their version has become a staple of classic rock radio and is the best-known version in the United States. But was taken from us by the Devil who tempted our first parents.
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