57 The Blues And Woodstock 1969

Prelude To The Woodstock Music and Art Fair: An Aquarian Exposition - 3 Days of Peace & Music August 15-18, 1969 32 acts arrive in Bethel, New York And half a million kids too. Woodstock Blues… Join us as we anticipate the Big Event one week today! Woodstock Weekend 2025! Just seven days from now...   BUT FIRST! Join our annual pilgrimage to the spiritual home of Woodstock, like Lana Del Rey famously quipped, “Woodstock in my mind”. We're CELEBRATING our very first birthday “the ONLY Rock N Roll podcast you need!” Woodstock weekend 2025. Come along with us for the ride as we retrace our steps towards the hallowed grounds of Bethel, New York, one of Rock N Roll’s most sacred landscapes, the natural amphitheater at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm, the cow pasture that housed a temporary village of half a million kids in the middle of forests and farmland and rolling green hills. Revisit. Regroup. Repeat. Reuse. Expect to be turned on to the secret history of the Music Festival from Ancient Greece to Altamont and beyond. Q: “Where ya headed?” A: “Further” From Hendrix’s triumphant arrival in 1967 at the Monterey International Pop Festival during the Summer Of Love to his late great channeling of a new psychedelic American anthem for the age of Aquarius before the dream was over… A nation awakened from a dream with the arrest of Charles Manson and his deranged family of knife wielding, hippie kids, October,1969. The December 6, 1969 murder of a concert goer during the Stones set at Altamont, in California. All this AND MORE in the latest episode of Rock N Roll Fashionistas, contextualizing rock n roll since Woodstock 2024   OPENING TRACK: "Everybody Knows About My Good Things" https://music.apple.com/ca/album/everybody-knows-about-my-good-thing/1440863936?i=1440864543 The Rolling Stones began their career in recorded music with an album of covers in 1964. 52 years later in 2016 we hear Mick, Keith & company sound the alarm on their enduring legacy with the release of the penultimate Blue & Lonesome, another album of covers, informed by 52 years of hard living and conflict.    MIDDLE TRACK: *Contains EXPLICIT language WARNING. For the1998 Spike Lee joint He Got Game, a gripping basketball themed African American tale staring Academy Award wining actor Denzel Washington, director Spike Lee spurns the obvious in choosing a soundtrack and film score entirely consisting of orchestral music from master American composer Aaron Copland. For the closing credits to the film, Academy Award winning director Lee enlists the talents of Chuck D and Flavor Flav of Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame hip hop group Public Enemy along with the unmistakable two note guitar riff of Stephen Stills' "For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)" written as a protest of the Sunset Strip police takedown in November 1966 on the strip in Los Angeles and released a month later, December 5, 1966, by his band Buffalo Springfield. "He Got Game" https://music.apple.com/ca/album/he-got-game-feat-stephen-stills/1424733581?i=1424733591   CLOSING TRACK: Dismissed by the clique who run the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, legendary multi Grammy Award winning Texas bluesman rocker Johnny Winter, the very first non-African American ever inducted into the Blues Hall Of Fame (1988) kills it, literally, with a self penned track "Dallas" https://music.apple.com/ca/album/dallas/193769775?i=193769856 from his self titled sophomore album released on Columbia Records just months before his appearance at Woodstock in the summer of 1969 Want on our mailing list? Only one weekly update email, we promise! Wanna leave a comment? Need to contact us? Visit the show's website at www.rocknrollfashionistas.com   Or write us at [email protected]   Please Note: Audio portions of this podcast have been reproduced under the fair use doctrine. This use is intended to be transformative, adding perspective to the original work, serving an educational purpose rather than commercial gain. This use is intended academically and does not serve as a substitute for the original.