Richie Havens 5-05-04

RICHIE HAVENS (Originally Aired: May 5, 2004) Singer, Songwriter, Performer, Artist. Richie Havens is gifted with one of the most recognizable voices in popular music. His fiery, poignant, always soulful, singing style has remained unique and ageless since he first emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960's. It's a voice that has inspired and electrified audiences from the Woodstock Music & Arts Fair in 1969, to the Clinton Presidential Inauguration in 1993-coming full circle with the 30th Woodstock Anniversary celebration, "A Day In The Garden", in 1999.

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[ruithael]

I love ritchie havens. He has such a beautiful soul.

[taildragger51]

Richie does look great. If you took the beard away he hasn't got a wrinkle on his face. So glad he's still around to tell us the real story from decades ago. He's a living legend. I was lucky to've seen him in 1972 at the Crystal Palace Bowl (London UK). I'll never forget that day.

[thestoryplease]

It is so annoying when an interviewer does all the talking - especially with a modest person like many artists are. I just want to put some tape over his mouth.

[bathory1234567890]

The moderator is talking far too much. He should only let Richie talk.

[LEGSUDESIRE]

This man has such a great voice

[lastdaysguitar]

Ritchie Havens has a heart as big as a mountain and is one of a kind.

More than a folk legend, he's a national treasure and a great spokesman for the peace that our Good Lord would have us living in.

God bless you Ritchie!

[sixpakplayer]

go ahead play on those pussy 9's

[sixpakplayer]

looks more like Dwight D. Eisenhower, who by the way warned of the Military Industrial Complex

[sundowner108]

Yeah gotta add my 2 cents worth:

Geez Louise, Harold- Let Richie Freakin' Talk!

[Focoist911]

DOnt even bother with this man. You need to see this guy at woodstock. Legendary and it is a hard shirt to wear old boy. Sorry, but even at bob dylan's 30th tribute concert when you play Just Lilke A Woman, fuck off man, fuck off, I cant find that any where on the net and that is the problem I have with you Richie and they only reason I dont like you. Those heavy strings

[lordaaronius]

In my opinion, the best version of Jackson Browne's song "Lives in the Balance". Havens has a way of pounding the feeling out so beautifully.

[kazkaz007]

I do not understand a lot (french). But I think the gentleman of the media is not very pleasant. Sometimes people of communication (TV, newspapers, politicians, civil servants) are afraid of artists because they speak another language, and often, a language still somewhat "subversive". For today, a bit of "humanity" is already subversive, in an ultra-mechanical world.

I think. Different "degrees" of humanity ; but the Order ( "social system" / Status quo) shall prevail... (?)