Joe Cocker braved a snowstorm to perform at the Prison (at the Burnsville Bowl) on December 14, 1969, his last appearance in the US before returning to England.  Danny’s Reasons opened the show.

Tom Barbeau reports:

There couldn’t have been more than 2-300 hundred people there. That was a small crowd in that room, as I recall a lot of empty space. My group of 6 or 7 guys who made the trip (packed into a ’53 Ford coming from St. Paul, through a snow storm), had no trouble getting to within 20 to 30 feet of the stage with lots and lots of empty space behind us. Everything he had at Woodstock the previous August, he showed us there, that night, and the crowd was totally blown away.

At that time Cocker had four singles on the charts, none in the top 20.  Tom indicated that he was relatively unknown at the time.  Although he had made a star-making appearance at Woodstock, the film Woodstock wouldn’t be released until 1970.