Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 17: Peter Gabriel

The 17th and final album from the Woodstock '94 Festival is a set by Peter Gabriel. That also makes it the final album of the entire festival.

I'm not sure why Gabriel was chosen as the final act of the festival. It's not the most enviable spot. For instance, Jimi Hendrix closed out the 1969 Woodstock Festival, but by the time he came on, the vast majority of the crowd had left! I don't know if that was the case for this festival or not. Probably way more were there, because one can see the video of this set, and the audience still looks huge. 

In any case, Gabriel may have gotten the spot because he had more involvement in the festival than most acts. I imagine he had a large role in the WOMAD world music section of the festival that took place earlier on Day Three, and he even performed a bit during that. After all, WOMAD is its own annual musical festival and/or tour that Gabriel has been deeply involved in.

By this point in his career, Gabriel usually took quite a few years between albums. His most recent album at the time was "Us," released in 1992. I guess he was still touring to support that, and he played a bunch of songs from that album. As an aside, one of Gabriel's backing singers at the time was Paula Cole. She would have a couple of big hits of her own a couple of years later. She has a prominent vocal role in the first song, "Come Talk to Me."

Youssou N’Dour performed at the festival on Day Two. He helped sing two songs in this set as well, "Shaking the Tree" and "In Your Eyes." He was on the studio recordings for both.

That's the end of all my postings for this massive festival. Thanks for your patience with the unusually long time it took to get all of these posted. 

This album is an hour and 31 minutes long.

01 Come Talk to Me (Peter Gabriel)
02 Quiet Steam (Peter Gabriel)
03 Shaking the Tree (Peter Gabriel with Youssou N’Dour)
04 San Jacinto (Peter Gabriel)
05 Red Rain (Peter Gabriel)
06 Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
07 Digging in the Dirt (Peter Gabriel)
08 Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
09 Secret World (Peter Gabriel)
10 In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel with Youssou N’Dour)
11 Biko [Edit] (Peter Gabriel)
12 talk (Peter Gabriel)

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The cover photo is from this exact concert.