Woodstock (song)
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"Woodstock" is a song about the Woodstock Music and Art Festival of 1969.
Joni Mitchell wrote the song from what she had heard about the festival, even though she had not been there herself, since she had been stuck in traffic on the day she was due to perform there. She wrote this song crying at home watching the show on television. It was later released on her third album, Ladies of the Canyon in 1970, again in 1997 on her Hits album.
The song later went on to be hits for both Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Matthews' Southern Comfort.
The song was also featured in a 2002 episode of the HBO series, Six Feet Under, which was also titled "Back to the Garden", from a verse in the lyrics.
In her 2005 book "Break, Blow, Burn," critic Camille Paglia wrote a chapter about the song, honoring it as "possibly the most popular and influential poem composed in English since Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy.'"