Matthews Southern Comfort Woodstock (1970)

Woodstock became an international hit in 1970 and 1971 through a recording by Matthews Southern Comfort. The group performed Woodstock on the Live in Concert program broadcast live by BBC Radio 1 on June 28, 1970 frontman Iain Matthews would recall that the group required an additional song for their set on the scheduled radio session, and that the choice of Woodstock was his own suggestion, Matthews having just become familiar with the Joni Mitchell version as he had purchased her Ladies of the Canyon album earlier that week. Due to the positive response to that song, the BBC contacted Matthews s label, Uni Records. According to Matthews, the label had no idea what the BBC were talking about and contacted my management, who asked me about it. Uni suggested that we record the song and add it to the newly recorded Matthews Southern Comfort album, Later That Same Year. I declined to mess with the completed album, but agreed to have them release th