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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Live At The Aquarius Theatre The Second Performance is a live album by The Doors.
It was recorded in Los Angeles in 1969.
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Live 1969 is a live album by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers.
This was released as The Turning Point Soundtrack in the USA.
Live at the Aquarius Theatre: The First Performance is a live album by The Doors.
It was recorded in Los Angeles on July 21, 1969.
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Live At The Oakland Coliseum is a live album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
It was recorded at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California on April 27, 1969.
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Fathers And Sons is an album that has been partly recorded in the studio and partly recorded live in concert by Muddy Waters.
The live tracks were recorded at the Super Cosmic Joy-Scout Jamboree in Chicago on April 24, 1969.
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Morituri Te Salutant is a compilation of live and studio tracks by Colosseum.
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Live At The Boston Tea Party August 1969 is a live compilation album by progressive jazz/blues rock band Colosseum.
It pulls together tracks recorded:
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Fillmore West 1969 is a three CD live album by the Grateful Dead.
It was recorded from performances on the four consecutive nights February 27 through March 2, 1969 in San Francisco.
Thhe full performances are also on another album called Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings. These concerts had been already been the source of perhaps the band’s most famous live album Live/Dead.
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The Woodstock Experience is a two CD set by Janis Joplin with one CD in teh stucio and the second live in concert.
This collection brings together her studio album I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again, Mama together with a second CD with a recording of her Woodstock performance performing with the Kozmic Blues Band on August 16th, 1969.
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Live At The Marquee 1969 is a live album by John Mayall.
It was recorded at The Marquee Club, London, June 30, 1969.
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