Sweetwater (band)
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Sweetwater was a rock and roll band best known as the first group that played (after Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald and John Sebastian) at the Woodstock festival in 1969. One of their best known songs is Motherless Child.
After Woodstock, singer Nansi Nevins was hurt badly in a car accident, which stopped the success of the band.
The group reunited for Woodstock II in 1994.
In 1999 the story of the band was depicted in a VH1 TV-movie.
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