RICHIE HAVENS Mixed Bag LP NEW SEALED 180 GRAM VINYL MONO SUNDAZED FOLK
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Description
ARTIST: Richie Havens
TITLE: Mixed Bag
FORMAT: LP (180 Gram)
LABEL: Sundazed
CATALOG #: LP-5476
RECORD CONDITION: NEW
JACKET CONDITION: NEW
DESCRIPTION: Mono reissue of Richie Havens' first album, originally released in August 1967 on Verve Forecast. The intriguing LP gathers songs from Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, and Lennon/McCartney, as well as three self-penned compositions.
"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."" - Jim Newsom & allmusic.com
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