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Track Listing
1. Stop Pulling and Pushing Me
2. For Heaven's Sake
3. Strawberry Fields Forever
4. What More Can I Say John?
5. I Pity the Poor Immigrant
6. Lady Madonna
7. Priests
8. Indian Rope Man
9. Cautiously
10. Just Above My Hobby Horse's Head
11. She's Leaving Home
12. Putting Out the Vibration, and Hoping It Comes Home
13. Parable of Ramon, The
14. With a Little Help From My Friends
15. Wear Your Love Like Heaven
16. Run, Shaker Life
17. Do You Feel Good?
18. Handsome Johnny
19. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
| Details | | Producer: | Mark Roth, Richie Havens | | Distributor: | E1 Distribution (USA) | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Richie Havens (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, tamboura, hand claps, background vocals); Paul Williams , Teddy Irwin (guitar); Bruce Langhorne (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Weldon Myrick (steel guitar); Bob Chase (hammer dulcimer); Brad Campbell (harp); Collin Walcott (sitar, tabla); Jerry Steig (flute); John Ord (piano, celesta, organ); Ken Lauder, Charlie Smalls (piano); Warren Bernhardt (Clavinet); Arnie Moore, Diane Comins, Jymm Fairs, Eric Oxindine, Steven Stills, Carol Hunter (bass instrument); Don Macdonald, Paul Humphrey, Skip Prokop (drum); Carter Collins, Daniel Ben Zebulon (congas); Charles Howell (background vocals).
The first Richie Havens album released in the wake of the folk singer's star turn at Woodstock, RICHARD P. HAVENS, 1983 (no, we don't understand the title either), was originally a two-LP set, and it's a bold production that builds on Havens' earlier, more sparse work by throwing a wide variety of instrumental textures into the arrangements. Havens is typically revelatory in his reinvention of well known tunes by the Beatles and others, but there are also some intriguing original songs here, and the set is divided between studio and live recordings, thus achieving a nice contrast.
Industry Reviews
Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - [C]ryptic folk written for a world edging towards 1984-style totalitarianism...
Mojo (03/01/2004)
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