Woodstock ’94 was an attempt to recapture the magic of the original 1969 festival, taking place on Winston Farm in Saugerties, New York, exactly 25 years later.Santana, The Band, Joe Cocker, and Crosby, Stills & Nash were among the returning performers, while rising stars such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, and Green Day also took to the stage.Fittingly, the weekend was marred by the same issues of overcrowding, security concerns, and poor weather that plagued the original event, earning it the nickname ‘Mudstock’.Having temporarily withdrawn from the music industry, Bob Dylan had declined an invitation to perform at Woodstock ’69.Determined to rectify this omission, organisers were eager to secure him for the festival’s 25th-anniversary edition.The early 1990s had been a particularly productive period for Dylan, and by the time Woodstock ’94 arrived, he had already released three albums that decade: Under the Red Sky (1990), Good As I Been to You (1992), and World Gone Wrong (1993).This time, he accepted the offer, agreeing to perform on the festival’s final day in a set dubbed ‘25 years in the making’.