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Sweetwater

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Sweetwater
Sweetwater at Woodstock
Performed on Day 1
Started at 6.15 pm, Friday, 15th
Played for 45 min.
Further Information
Festival Day Chronology
Prev. artist Richie Havens at 5.00 pm
Next artist Bert Sommer at 7.15 pm

The first band that played at the festival was Sweetwater following Richie Havens who was a solo artist. Sweetwater arrived later on Friday afternoon because they were stuck in the traffic jam. They started at about 6.15 pm.


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[edit] Musicians

  • Nancy Nevins - vocals
  • Alex Del Zoppo - piano, and harmonica and backing vocals
  • Fred Herrera - bass and backing vocals
  • August Burns - cello
  • Alan Malarowitz - drums
  • Elpidio "Pete" Cobian - congas, percussion
  • Albert Moore - flute, Tambourine, Cowbell, backing vocals

[edit] Setlist

  1. Motherless Child
  2. Look Out
  3. For Pete's Sake
  4. What's Wrong
  5. Crystal Spider
  6. Two Worlds
  7. Why Oh Why
  8. Let the Sunshine In
  9. Oh Happy Day
  10. Day Song

[edit] Details

Sweetwater played for about 45 minutes[1]. There exist 32 minutes of Sweetwater recordings.

Sweetwater's performance was nothing special. The jams in their longer songs, "What's Wrong" and "Why Oh Why", didn't help much. The multi-vocal parts are rather chaotic. The only noteworthy song is the psychedelic "My Crystal Spider" which includes some strange solo parts.

[edit] Availability

There are audience recordings and black/white film outtakes available. An official Sweetwater compilation contains the song "What's Wrong".

[edit] Images

Please upload any picture of Sweetwater that were taken at Woodstock! There are currently too few in the gallery.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. German Wikipedia, article Woodstock-Festival