What Woodstock band featured a flutist?
I know Jimi Hendrix played the flute on some of his songs, but I’m not sure if he did at Woodstock. Edit: He actually played recorder on If 6 Was 9, which he did not play at Woodstock. The search continues… Jethro Tull did not play at Woodstock. Mike Vickers did not play with Canned Heat. I think I found your answer, though: “In October the band [Canned Heat] released their third album, Living the Blues, which included their most well-known song, ‘Going Up the Country’. Alan’s Wilson’s incarnation of Henry Thomas’ ‘Bull-doze Blues’ was almost a note-for-note copy of the original, down to Thomas’s instrumental break on the quills which Jim Horn duplicated on flute. Wilson rewrote the lyrics with a simple message that caught the ‘back-to-nature’ attitude of the late ‘60s. The song went to #1 in 25 countries around the world (only reached #11 on the U.S national chart) and would go on to become the unofficial theme song of the Woodstock Festival as captured in Michael Wadleigh’s 1970 do
