Richie Havens

Richie Havens
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About the artist

Richard P. "Richie" Havens (born January 21, 1941; died April 22, 2013) was an American folk singer and guitarist. He is best remembered for his intense, rhythmic guitar style (often in open tunings), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Havens moved to Greenwich Village in 1961 in time to get in on the folk boom then taking place. Havens had a distinctive style as a folksinger

Top songs

  1. Here Comes The Sun
  2. Tombstone Blues
  3. Going Back to My Roots
  4. Freedom
  5. I Can't Make It Anymore
  6. Handsome Johnny
  7. Just Like A Woman
  8. Follow
  9. High Flyin' Bird
  10. Something Else Again
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  1. Strawberry Fields Forever
  2. San Francisco Bay Blues
  3. All Along the Watchtower
  4. Eleanor Rigby
  5. Morning Morning
  6. Adam
  7. Helplessly Hoping
  8. God Bless the Child
  9. Three Day Eternity
  10. Fire and Rain
  11. Sandy
  12. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
  13. Younger Men Grow Older
  14. With a Little Help From My Friends
  15. Morning, Morning
  16. Long Train Running
  17. There's a Hole in the Future
  18. Indian Rope Man
  19. From The Prison
  20. High Flying Bird
  21. Dolphins
  22. Lady Madonna
  23. We Both Know
  24. The Klan
  25. I Started a Joke
  26. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
  27. To Give All Your Love Away
  28. If Not For You
  29. The Key
  30. It Could Be the First Day
  31. No More, No More
  32. Follow the Drinking Gourd
  33. Missing Train
  34. Ooh Child
  35. Open Our Eyes
  36. Won't Get Fooled Again
  37. Preparation
  38. Lives In The Balance
  39. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen/ My Sweet Lord
  40. Dreams
  41. By the Grace of the Sun
  42. What's Going On
  43. Handouts in the Rain
  44. Girls Don't Run Away
  45. Run, Shaker Life
  46. Superman
  47. Woodstock
  48. The Times They Are A-Changin'
  49. Hurricane Waters
  50. Freedom (2009)
  51. I'm Not In Love
  52. End of the Seasons
  53. Just Above My Hobby Horse's Head
  54. Say It Isn't So
  55. Woman
  56. Peace Train
  57. Give Us A Flag
  58. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
  59. Some Will Wait
  60. Rocky Raccoon
  61. Minstrel From Gaul
  62. Prayer
  63. Standing On The Water
  64. Patient Lady
  65. Nobody Left To Crown
  66. Somethin' Else Again
  67. Alarm Clock
  68. Stop Pulling And Pushing Me
  69. Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
  70. She's Leaving Home
  71. Freedom [2009]
  72. What About Me
  73. If I
  74. You Send Me
  75. We've Got Tonight
  76. In My Life
  77. HERE COMES THE SUN (LIVE)
  78. Lay Lady Lay
  79. Every Night
  80. You'll Never Know
  81. I Pity The Poor Immigrant
  82. Maggie's Farm
  83. Just Like a Woman - Remastered
  84. Freedom (Motherless Child)
  85. Of Time and Rivers Flowing
  86. Priests
  87. We All Know Now
  88. One More Day
  89. Cautiously
  90. Drown in my own Tears

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