Richie Havens
Brooklyn-born Richie Havens grew up singing doo wop on street corners, but by the mid-1960s, he'd found his way to Greenwich Village, where he became an integral part of the singer-songwriter explosion alongside Tim Hardin, Fred Neil, et al. His gruff, soulful voice, unconventional guitar tuning, and highly rhythmic strumming style marked Havens as a unique stylist, and he became best known as an imaginative interpreter of material by Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and others. Havens's stirring performance of "Freedom" opened the 1969 Woodstock festival; captured on film, it made him an icon of '60s counterculture.
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Albums
- (2008) Nobody Left To Crown
- (2007) The Classics
- (2006) Dreaming As One: The A&M Years
- (2006) Sings Beatles And Dylan
- (2005) Connections
- (2000) 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Richie Havens
- (1988) Mixed Bag
Top Tracks
- Here Comes the Sun
- Just Like A Woman
- Strawberry Fields Forever
- High Flyin' Bird
- Peace Train
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