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Richie Havens - Mixed Bag [1967][FLAC]
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Audio > FLAC
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14
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231.5 MB

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folk soul

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Sep 29, 2013
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dickspic



Artist: Richie Havens
Release: Mixed Bag
Released: 1967
Label: 1990- Polydor / Verve
Catalog#: 8352102
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log / Cue
Country: USA
Style: Folk,soul


1	 High Flyin' Bird	3:35	
2	 I Can't Make It Anymore	2:48	
3	 Morning, Morning	2:17	
4	 Adam	3:34	
5	 Follow	6:22	
6	 Three Day Eternity	2:15	
7	 Sandy	3:12	
8	 Handsome Johnny	3:53	
9	 San Francisco Bay Blues	2:30	
10	 Just Like A Woman	4:46	
11	 Eleanor Rigby	2:42

Richie Havens' finest recording, Mixed Bag captures the essence of his music and presents it in an attractive package that has held up well. A close listen to lyrics like "I Can't Make It Anymore" and "Morning, Morning" reveals sadness and loneliness, yet the music is so appealingly positive that a listener actually comes away feeling uplifted. In fact, on most of the songs on this album, it's the sound of Havens' distinctive voice coupled with his unusual open-E guitar tuning, rather than the specific lyrical content of the songs, that pulls the listener in. The six-and-a-half minute "Follow" is structured like a Dylan composition in the "Hard Rain" mode, with its memorable verse-ending refrain, "Don't mind me 'cause I ain't nothin' but a dream." Both "Sandy" and "San Francisco Bay Blues" have a jazzy feel, while the aforementioned "I Can't Make It Anymore" would not have been out of place in a movie soundtrack or pop radio playlist of the time. "Handsome Johnny," one of Havens' best known songs as a result of the Woodstock film, is a classic anti-war ballad, stoked by the singer's unmistakable thumb-chorded guitar strumming. Mixed Bag winds up with a soulful cover of Dylan's "Just Like a Woman" and an electric piano-propelled take on the Lennon-McCartney classic, "Eleanor Rigby."