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Woodstock 50 Back To The Garden – 50th Anniversary Collection

As you’ll have noticed in the competition at the end of our Woodstock cover feature, the festival’s golden anniversary is being celebrated with a host of remastered releases. If you don’t have the budget (or indeed the 36 hours of time!) for the 38-CD package, then this three-disc CD collection will do a grand job of transporting you to the fields of Bethel with 42 tracks from the weekend’s performances, including Freedom (Motherless Child) by Richie Havens,Janis Joplin’s Piece

Of My Heart and Soul Sacrifice by Santana.

THE WHO Live At Leeds

Recorded a few months after Woodstock, in the early part of 1970, this album showcases Pete Townshend’s contrasting wild lead solos and super-accurate rhythm playing. It’s worth checking out the subsequent reissues too, as the group were most certainly firing on all four cylinders during this period! Summertime Blues, Magic

Bus and My Generation are all particularly epic performances, plus a very tidy version of I Can’t Explain. A power trio has rarely sounded this good.

Mountain Nantucket Sleighride

Fronted by the often overlooked Leslie West, whose adept and high-energy playing can be clearly heard throughout, this album has many high points, but check out Don’t Look Around and Tired

Angels (which was dedicated to Jimi Hendrix, who had passed the previous year) in particular. The title track, Nantucket

Sleighride, may jog a couple of memories, too, as it appeared as the theme tune for UK current-affairs TV show Weekend World for more than a decade!