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The third day of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was held on this day in 1969. I’ve featured a lot of music from the event over the years, so today I’ll try to show a few of the less famous performances. Here’s Mountain featuring Leslie West with “Soundbound Train.”
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.
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