The big event for live music in 1969, and perhaps the most famous festival in history, is Woodstock. As well as the various artists summary of the Woodstock experience, we also have live albums by Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone and others.
There are also the two famous prison albums by Johnny Cash at Folsom and San Quentin that are regular challengers for the best live album ever recorded.
Live albums recorded in 1969 include:
Alice Cooper Live at the Whisky A Go-Go
Alice Cooper Ladies Man or Science Fiction or Freak Out
James Brown Sex Machine
Tim Buckley Live At The Troubadour
The Byrds – Live At Fillmore February 1969
Canned Heat Live at Topanga Corral
Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash – At San Quentin
Joe Cocker Live At Woodstock
Colosseum Live At The Boston Tea Party August 1969
Country Joe & The Fish – Live Fillmore West
Miles Davis Bitches Brew Live
Deep Purple Concerto for Group and Orchestra
Deep Purple Live in Montreux
Delaney And Bonnie On Tour With Eric Clapton
Duke Ellington’s 70th Birthday Concert
Duke Ellington Live At Cabaret L’Alcazar
Fleetwood Mac Shrine 69
Grateful Dead – Live Dead
Grateful Dead Fillmore West 1969 The Complete Recordings
Grateful Dead Live at the Fillmore East 2-11-69
Merle Haggard Okie from Muskogee Live
Jimi Hendrix – Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Jimi Hendrix – Live At Woodstock
Jimi Hendrix In The West
Humble Pie Live At The Whisky A-Go-Go ’69
Iron Butterfly Live 1969
Jefferson Airplane The Woodstock Experience
Janis Joplin The Woodstock Experience
BB King Live & Well
King Crimson Epitaph Volumes 1 & 2
King Crimson Live At The Marquee
Led Zeppelin – BBC Sessions
Led Zeppelin Live In Paris
John Mayall The Turning Point
John Mayall Live 1969
John Mayall Live At The Marquee
Melanie On Air BBC Live in Concert
Joni Mitchell Newport Folk Festival 19 July 1969
Moby Grape Moby Grape Live
The Moody Blues Caught Live + 5
Mountain Live The Road Goes Ever On
The Move Live at The Fillmore
Rick Nelson In Concert At The Troubadour
The Nice Five Bridges
The Nice Live At The Fillmore East December 1969
Gram Parsons Live at the Avalon Ballroom
Esther Phillips Burnin’ Live at Freddie Jett’s Pied Pier LA
Pink Floyd – Ummagumma
The Rolling Stones – Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out
Santana The Woodstock Experience
Simon And Garfunkel Live 1969
Sly & The Family Stone – The Woodstock Experience
Three Dog Night Captured Live At The Forum
Velvet Underground – with Lou Reed Live 1969
Various Artists – Woodstock: Music From The Original Soundtrack And More
Johnny Winter The Woodstock Experience
Yes Something’s Coming The BBC Recordings 1969 to 1970
Neil Young Live at the Riverboat
The Youngbloods Ride The Wind
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At Golden Gate Park is a live album by Jefferson Airplane.
It was recorded at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on July 5th, 1969.
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Live 69 is a live album by Albert King.
It was recorded in Wisconsin in May 1969.
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Live At The Fillmore West is a live album by Albert Collins.
It was recorded in San Francisco in 1969.
This recording has also been released under the names of Alive And Cool and Thaw Out At The Fillmore.
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Live New York PBS Critique is a live recording by The Doors which was originally a radio broadcast.
It was recorded on April 28 and 29, 1969.
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Live in Ann Arbor & Chicago is a live album by Magic Sam.
It was recorded at The Alex Club, Chicago in 1963-64 and at The Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1969.
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Alive & Cool is a live album by Albert Collins.
It was recorded at the Fillmore West in San Francisco in 1969. It has also been released as Live At The Fillmore and Thaw Out At The Fillmore.
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Family Dog At The Great Highway, San Francisco June 13th, 1969 is a live album by Jefferson Airplane.
It was originally broadcast on Radio KSAN.
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Dick’s Picks Volume 16 is a live album by the Grateful Dead.
It was recorded at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California on November 8, 1969 and it was released in March 2000.
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Deep Freeze is a live recording by Albert Collins.
It combines performances at the Fillmore West in San Francisco in 1969, and at the El Mocambo Club in Toronto, Canada in 1973
BBC Sessions is a live compilation album of live in the studio recordings of early progressive hard rock band, Toe Fat.
Discogs gives the following dates for the recordings:
Tracks 1-4 recorded on 23rd July 1969
Tracks 5-8 recorded on 19th February 1970
Tracks 9-10 recorded on 14th April 1970
Tracks 11-13 recorded on 6th October 1970
Tracks 14-17 recorded live in Port Chester, NY on 5th December 1970.
Toe Fat are best known for being an early band in the career of Ken Hensley, best known for his time with Uriah Heep.
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