In spring 1969, after the success of "Music from Big Pink", the Band went on tour. Their first live appearance was at Stony Brook University. That summer they performed at the Woodstock Festival (their performance was not included in the famed "Woodstock" film because of legal complications), and later that year they performed with Dylan at the UK Isle of Wight Festival (several songs from which were subsequently included on Dylan's "Self Portrait" album). That same year, they left for Los Angeles to record their follow-up, "The Band" (1969). From their rustic appearance on the cover to the songs and arrangements within, the album stood in contrast to other popular music of the day. (Several other artists made similar stylistic moves about the same time, notably Dylan, on "John Wesley Harding", which was written during the "Basement Tapes" sessions, and the Byrds, on "Sweetheart of the Rodeo", which featured two "Basement Tapes" covers.) "The Band" featured songs that evoked old-time rural America, from the Civil War in "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" to the unionization of farm workers in "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)".