RICHIE HAVENS - THE BEST OF..

Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens (January 21, 1941 – April 22, 2013) was an American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense and rhythmic guitar style (often in open tunings), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Havens' career benefited enormously from his appearance at the Woodstock festival in 1969 and his subsequent featured role in the movie and album made from the concert in 1970. His first album after that exposure, Alarm Clock, made the Top 30 and produced a Top 20 single in "Here Comes the Sun." These recordings were Havens' commercial high watermark, but by this time he had become an international touring success. By the end of the '70s, he had abandoned recording and turned entirely to live work. Havens came back to records with a flurry of releases in 1987: a new album, Simple Things; an album of Bob Dylan and Beatles covers; and a compilation. In 1991, Havens signed his first major-label deal in 15 years when he moved to Sony Music and released Now. Nobody Left to Crown was issued by Verve Forecast in 2008. On April 22, 2013, Havens died of a heart attack at home in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was 72.

01. High Flyin' Bird
02. Drown In My Own Tears
03. Morning, Morning
04. Just Like A Woman
05. The Dolphins
06. Here Comes The Sun
07. God Bless The Child
08. The Klan
09. Handsome Johnny
10. Follow
11. Younger Men Grow Older
12. Medley Run Shaker Lifedo You Feel Good
13. What About Me
14. Minstrel From Gault
15. Rocky Raccoon
16. San Francisco Bay Blues
17. Freedom                                                                                                                                       http://fp.io/b5c18b4d/

RICHIE HAVENS - LIVE AT THE FILENE CENTER - 2007

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RICHIE HAVENS - MIXED BAG

Richie Havens - two albums from 60's
Mixed Bag is a 1967 album by Richie Havens. Although sometimes described as his debut, this was actually Havens's third record. It followed two earlier, lesser-known releases on Douglas Records. This was Havens's first record after signing on with manager, Albert Grossman which lead to this recording on a new folk music section of Verve Records. Mixed Bag is frequently cited as the singer's best work and was his first album to appear on Billboard's charts (appearing on both the jazz and pop charts). The recording was the first to introduce a wider audience to Havens's rich baritone vocals and the full-sound of Havens's distinct guitar style (thumb-chorded and played in open D tuning).

"High Flyin' Bird" (Billy Edd Wheeler) – 3:35
"I Can't Make It Anymore" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 2:48
"Morning, Morning" (Tuli Kupferberg) – 2:17
"Adam" (Havens) – 3:34
"Follow" (Jerry Merrick) – 6:22
"Three Day Eternity" (Havens) – 2:15
"Sandy" (Jean Pierre Cousineau) – 3:12
"Handsome Johnny" (Lou Gossett, Havens) – 3:53
"San Francisco Bay Blues" (Jesse Fuller) – 2:30
"Just Like a Woman" (Bob Dylan) – 4:46
"Eleanor Rigby" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:42
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RICHIE HAVENS - Richard P. Havens, 1983

Richard P. Havens, 1983 is a 1969 double album set by folk rock musician Richie Havens featuring a combination of studio recordings and live material recorded in concert in July, 1968. The album combined original material with several of the covers for which Havens is known. Notable songs include "Handsome Johnny" and the singles "Stop Pushing and Pulling Me" and "Indian Rope Man", the latter of which has been multiply covered under its own name and in retooled identity as "African Herbsman." The genre-bending album was critically and commercially well-received, reaching #80 on the Billboard "Pop Albums" chart. Initially released on the Verve label, it has been reissued multiple times in various formats, including by Verve subsidiary Verve Forecast Records, PolyGram and Australian label Raven Records. It has also been compiled with albums Mixed Bag and Something Else Again in multi-cd set Flyin' Bird: The Verve Forecast Years on the Hip-O Select label.

Except where otherwise noted, all tracks composed by Richie Havens.

"Stop Pulling and Pushing Me" – 1:48
"For Haven's Sake" – 7:01
"Strawberry Fields Forever" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:37
"What More Can I Say John?" – 4:38
"I Pity the Poor Immigrant" (Bob Dylan) – 3:09
"Lady Madonna" (Lennon, McCartney) – 1:57
"Priests" (Leonard Cohen) – 5:15
"Indian Rope Man" (Havens, Joe Price, Mark Roth) – 3:02
"Cautiously" (Maurey Hayden) – 4:00
"Just Above My Hobby Horse's Head" (Havens, Roth) – 2:58
"She's Leaving Home" (Lennon, McCartney) – 4:05
"Putting out the Vibration, and Hoping It Comes Home" (Havens, Roth) – 2:53
"The Parable of Ramon" (live) (Havens, Roth) – 7:56
"With a Little Help from My Friends" (live) (Lennon, McCartney) – 5:19
"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (live) (Donovan Leitch) – 4:55
"Run, Shaker Life" (live) – 4:04
"Do You Feel Good?" (live) – 4:52                                                                                                        http://www.fileserve.com/file/XW5B6md