Results for Richie HavensRichie Havens, a black folksinger with a percussive, strummed guitar style, enjoyed his greatest popularity during the late sixties. He was born and raised in a ghetto, the eldest of nine children in a family headed by a pianist father. As a child, he sang for spare change on street corners. By age fourteen, he was singing with the McCrea Gospel Singers in Brooklyn and three years later dropped out of high school to pursue a music career. He became a regular on the outdoor festival circuit, but was unable to transform his concert audiences into record consumers. In the 1980s and 1990s, he found steady work singing for television commercials. In 1990 he cofounded the Natural Guard, a national organization that helps children learn to protect the environment.“more
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by Denise Sullivan•June 5, 2009•
"When she did a piece of music, she would claim it as her own. Because it would change totally."
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by Denise Sullivan•October 1, 2008•
If ever there was a band of rock ‘n’ roll contrarians, it was Kramer's MC5, a ramshackle musical outfit typical of young bands in the post-Beatles/Stones era but with a trajectory that imploded them rather than skyrocketed them to fame. Claiming the avant-garde's Sun Ra and rock ‘n’ roll's Chuck Berry as inspiration, they started playing covers, and evolved to include in their repertoire grinding originals steeped
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by Denise Sullivan•September 10, 2008•
Like a new age beatnik who broadcasts the subterranean news through his songs, poems, artwork, and stories that reach across generations (his latest album is No One Left to Crown), Havens fits Jack Kerouac's description of Beats as "characters of a special spirituality." A self-proclaimed "song singer" and "all-around expressionist," he was not only present, but he participated in the cultural shift that began with the Beats and carried over into a mass movement in the ’60s.
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by The Editors•May 14, 2008•
Read shared stories from Paul and other writers and editors who worked on the original Crawdaddy! (plus our own Denise Sullivan who writes quite eloquently on the Crawdaddy! spirit). As we take time this issue to pay homage to the original, as our own one-year anniversary wouldn’t even be remotely possible without it, we hope you enjoy them as they recount their insightful tales.
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by Denise Sullivan•March 12, 2008•
When I set out to take on the matter of cover songs, I thought I'd be seeking uncomplicated answers to simple questions like: Is there such a thing as a definitive version of a song? Who decides these things? And why do we care?
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7/29/2008
Nicole Hart and Lance Ong To Wed at Lush Hawaiian Escape
Nestled between the majestic Koolau mountain range on...
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1/16/2008
Vaulters, thanks for posting the December 1978 Richie Havens show at the Bottom Line. Havens as a solo act is a...
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8/23/2007
OK here's the real stuff (yes, I'm even boring myself!). There were TWO Who shows in 1967 at the Village Theater, and I...
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8/21/2007
Oops, I was a little bit off! It was the Village Theater which became the Fillmore East (Anderson Theater was down the...
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1/11/2007
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MOTHER EARTH
11/23/67
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BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
12/21/67
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