Richie Havens

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
- Here Comes The Sun
- Tombstone Blues
- Going Back to My Roots
- Freedom
- I Can't Make It Anymore
- Handsome Johnny
- Just Like A Woman
- Follow
- High Flyin' Bird
- Something Else Again
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- Strawberry Fields Forever
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- All Along the Watchtower
- Eleanor Rigby
- Morning Morning
- Adam
- Helplessly Hoping
- God Bless the Child
- Three Day Eternity
- Fire and Rain
- Sandy
- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- Younger Men Grow Older
- With a Little Help From My Friends
- Morning, Morning
- Long Train Running
- There's a Hole in the Future
- Indian Rope Man
- From The Prison
- High Flying Bird
- Dolphins
- Lady Madonna
- We Both Know
- The Klan
- I Started a Joke
- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
- To Give All Your Love Away
- If Not For You
- The Key
- It Could Be the First Day
- No More, No More
- Follow the Drinking Gourd
- Missing Train
- Ooh Child
- Open Our Eyes
- Won't Get Fooled Again
- Preparation
- Lives In The Balance
- Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen/ My Sweet Lord
- Dreams
- By the Grace of the Sun
- What's Going On
- Handouts in the Rain
- Girls Don't Run Away
- Run, Shaker Life
- Superman
- Woodstock
- The Times They Are A-Changin'
- Hurricane Waters
- Freedom (2009)
- I'm Not In Love
- End of the Seasons
- Just Above My Hobby Horse's Head
- Say It Isn't So
- Woman
- Peace Train
- Give Us A Flag
- No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
- Some Will Wait
- Rocky Raccoon
- Minstrel From Gaul
- Prayer
- Standing On The Water
- Patient Lady
- Nobody Left To Crown
- Somethin' Else Again
- Alarm Clock
- Stop Pulling And Pushing Me
- Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
- She's Leaving Home
- Freedom [2009]
- What About Me
- If I
- You Send Me
- We've Got Tonight
- In My Life
- HERE COMES THE SUN (LIVE)
- Lay Lady Lay
- Every Night
- You'll Never Know
- I Pity The Poor Immigrant
- Maggie's Farm
- Just Like a Woman - Remastered
- Freedom (Motherless Child)
- Of Time and Rivers Flowing
- Priests
- We All Know Now
- One More Day
- Cautiously
- Drown in my own Tears
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