Various Artists – Big Sur Festival (1972) (24/44 Vinyl Rip)

Liner notes:
It started as a lark, Esalen Institute offering us a chance to take over that magnificent place for a whole weekend – the catch – an Esalen style seminar on "The New Folk Music." Well any time you found Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Farina, and me in the same place there had to be singing: so instead of meetings and lectures, sing we did, in the sulphur baths, on the lawns, even during meals sitting at long wooden tables in the lodge. Sunday afternoon we invited the neighborhood in general to join us, turned the deck of the Esalen swimming pool into a stage, and sang to everyone. Later at dinner, elated from the day's mixture of sun and champagne, we decided it was fun and we would have to do it again. So it was born, Big Sur Festival. Though the format has varied somewhat from year to year the tradition remains unchanged. Big Sur is a gathering of friends in a spectacularly beautiful place, a weekend to sing, to laugh, to relax.
This album represents the eighth Big Sur Festival; also probably the last. The performers all appeared for union scale – fifty dollars. Columbia Records paid festival expenses. Tickets were free and all who came were welcome. The festival profits from this album go to the Institute for the Study of Non-Violence, except for Blood, Sweat & Tears' royalties which will be donated to the UNICEF fund for Bangla Desh.
Listen closely; what you hear is some of the pop world's finest performers, the mountains of the California Coast, the Pacific Ocean, and thirty-five hundred people all sharing a peaceful, happy afternoon.

Only some sucking music industry's managers know, why such a historical recording has never been re-released in 40 years. Certainly not to do some record collectors a favor. The cover is some stupid copy-and-paste design, the place is really looking much more beautiful, at the bottom in the shadow you see the pool that was used as a stage:


Tracks
01. Joan Baez · Oh happy day 02:39
02. Joan Baez · Love is just a four letter word 03:11
03. Joan Baez · Song of the French partisan 03:12
04. Kris Kristofferson · The pilgrim – chapter 33 03:13
05. Kris Kristofferson · Jesse Younger 02:07
06. Joan Baez & Kris Kristofferson · Hello in there 03:30
07. The Entire Festival's Artists · Me and Bobby McGee 04:16
08. Taj Mahal · Nobody's business but my own 03:27
09. Taj Mahal · Corinna 03:30
10. Joan Baez & Mickey Newbury · San Francisco Mabel Joy 05:53
11. Mickey Newbury · The Thirty-Third of August 03:43
12. Blood, Sweat & Tears · Lucretia Mac Evil 06:11
Total time: 44:45