Mixed Bag

Artist: Richie Havens
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 042283521025
EAN: 0042283521025
ASIN: B000001FOM

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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THE FOLK EARLY YEARS

Tracks:

High Flyin' Bird
I Can't Make It Anymore
Morning, Morning
Adam
Follow
Three Day Eternity
Sandy
Handsome Johnny
San Francisco Bay Blues
Just Like A Woman
Eleanor Rigby

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Customer Reviews:

One of best albums of all time.......2007-01-03

I love this album. Richie's best. I first saw him 40 years ago playing a Washington Square Park. Saw him stumping for John Lindsey for President in Florida in '71. Seeing him again this May. Special Musician. The whole album has wonderful tunes.

A True Classic.......2006-08-26

I bought Mixed Bag back in 1967 after seeing Richie Havens on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. His talent and equal modesty won me over and I've been a fan ever since. I wore the poor LP out and replaced it in the mid-70s. Over the years and moves I lost track of the LP and the cassette I dubbed it on. Oh Joy! I found the cassette in a box with about 150 others. Now I am converting this great album to CD and giving it a top spot on my iPod Playlists. My favorite song remains Morning, Morning but all the songs are strong and can stand the test of time.

Richie.......2006-08-15

Richie is the man. He has one of the most soothing voices I have ever heard. His versions of Just Like a Woman and elanor rigby are unreal. A must have for any folk music collector.

New beginnings.......2006-03-02

Richie Havens has found a whole new audience for his intense, emotional vocal style thanks to his collaborations with the likes of Groove Armada and subsequent solo live appearances. In the seventies he owed his major popularity to his inclusion in the film of the 1969 Woodstock festival, for which he opened and had to fill for over an hour, eventually improvising what became his own anthem, Freedom. Before that he had been known to the cognoscenti from his influential Greenwich Village jazz-folk-rock interpretations of diverse material, using his unusual self-taught D-chord guitar tunings (not E-chord as is often written), and for his idiosyncratic song compositions.

Although not a prolific writer, the original songs which peppered his albums became cult items to be picked up and recorded by other artists.

Somebody at Marmalade Records in the UK must have liked him because Blossom Toes recorded the quirky Just Above My Hobby Horse's Head and Julie Driscoll covered Indian Rope Man. Bob Marley later adapted the same song as African Herbsman. The Jefferson Airplane covered High Flying Bird from this album, although written by Billy Edd Wheeler.

Mixed Bag was his third album but the first for Verve Folkways and serves as a good introduction to his work. It contains the single I Can't Make It Anymore (written by Gordon Lightfoot) and his own Handsome Johnny. He transforms Jesse Fuller's San Francisco Bay Blues by slowing it down and performing it as a jazz rather than blues standard. The lengthy centre-piece Follow has a stately dignity and was later used in the films The War and A Walk On The Moon, and there are also passionate and timeless renditions of Eleanor Rigby and Just Like A Woman performed in his own style
(review dated 17 December 2003)

The Finest Acoustic Guitarist in the World.......2004-07-01

I heard Richie Havens for the first time at the 30th Anniversary Concert for Bob Dylan, where he delivered a magisterial performance of Just Like A Woman. I had always loved the song for its brilliant series of chord changes and its overall maturity, but I didn't appreciate its poignancy and beauty until I heard Richie Havens perform it.

I have been a fan ever since. Havens reminds me of another personal hero, Nina Simone, in that he deconstructs a song -- be it a standard, an original composition, or an obscure gem -- and reconstructs it in a way that is breathtaking and intoxicating. He doesn't just take his listeners through a song, but takes them into it, to explore its heart and soul and real meaning. He pours every ounce of his being into each performance, and the emotional effect is staggering.

His uncanny sense of lyrical phrasing, his percussive approach to strumming, and his technical virtuosity are truly unique. He is arguably the finest acoustic guitarist in the world, and deserves to be heard by anyone with ears.

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