Shawn Phillips at the Isle of Wight
August 29, 1970
Afton Down, Isle of Wight









Isle of Wight was Europe's equivalent to Woodstock. Shawn was not scheduled to perform. However, he was invited to do so. He performed three songs: Woman, Breakthrough and Ballad of Casey Deiss before an estimated 300,000 people that day

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