RICHIE HAVENS
''CUTS TO THE CHASE''
1994
59:00
1/Lives in the Balance
Jackson Browne/4:22
2/They Dance Alone
Sting/5:23
3/My Father's Shoes
Cliff Eberhardt/2:44
4/Darkness, Darkness
Jesse Colin Young/4:24
5/The Hawk
Kris Kristofferson/4:36
6/Young Boy
Richie Havens/3:23
7/The Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan/4:54
8/Fade to Blue
Bill Perry/5:39
9/Intro/Old Love
Eric Clapton / Robert Cray / Louis Small/6:25
10/How the Nights Can Fly
Bob Lind/5:14
11/Comin' Back to Me
Marty Balin/3:26
12/Don't Pass It Up
Greg Chansky/4:50
13/At a Glance
Greg Chansky/3:40
Ed Barretini /Drums, Vocals (Background)
Greg Chansky /Guitar
Paul Chansky /Keyboards
Richie Havens /Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Sitar, Vocals
Jimmie Mack /Bass, Vocals (Background)
Chuck Mangione /Flugelhorn, Guest Artist
Bill Perry /Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
Louis Small /Keyboards
REVIEW
by Ron Wynn
Guitarist/composer Richie Havens keeps making thought-provoking, poignant and intensely personal music, with few (if any) romantic songs and frank discussions of issues without violent or sexist rhetoric. This is Havens' first solo release in several years, and it contains only one original. But his covers of songs by Sting, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Lind and Marty Balin become his own memorable statements, while guitarist Billy Perry and guest guitarist Greg Chansky provide three new compositions. Although this doesn't have the same resonance as his great 1960s LPs, it's a worthy vehicle for the 1990s.
BIOGRAPHY
by William Ruhlmann
BORN: JANUARY 21, 1941 IN BROOKLYN, NY
DIED: APRIL 22, 2013
Born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Richie Havens moved to Greenwich Village in 1961 in time to get in on the folk boom then taking place. Havens had a distinctive style as a folksinger, appearing in such clubs as the Cafe Wha? His guitar set to an opening tuning, he would strum it while barring chords with his thumb, using it essentially as percussion while singing rhythmically in a gruff voice for a mesmerizing effect. Havens was signed to Douglas Records in 1965 and recorded two albums that gained him a local following. In 1967, the Verve division of MGM Records formed a folk section (Verve Forecast) and signed Havens and other folk-based performers. The result was Havens' third album, Mixed Bag. It wasn't until 1968 and the Something Else Again album, however, that Havens began to hit the charts -- actually, Havens' fourth, third, and second albums charted that year, in that order. In 1969 came the double album Richard P. Havens 1983.
Havens' career benefited enormously from his appearance at the Woodstock festival in 1969 and his subsequent featured role in the movie and album made from the concert in 1970. His first album after that exposure, Alarm Clock, made the Top 30 and produced a Top 20 single in "Here Comes the Sun." These recordings were Havens' commercial high watermark, but by this time he had become an international touring success. By the end of the '70s, he had abandoned recording and turned entirely to live work. Havens came back to records with a flurry of releases in 1987: a new album, Simple Things; an album of Bob Dylan and Beatles covers; and a compilation. In 1991, Havens signed his first major-label deal in 15 years when he moved to Sony Music and released Now. Nobody Left to Crown was issued by Verve Forecast in 2008.
''CUTS TO THE CHASE''
1994
59:00
1/Lives in the Balance
Jackson Browne/4:22
2/They Dance Alone
Sting/5:23
3/My Father's Shoes
Cliff Eberhardt/2:44
4/Darkness, Darkness
Jesse Colin Young/4:24
5/The Hawk
Kris Kristofferson/4:36
6/Young Boy
Richie Havens/3:23
7/The Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan/4:54
8/Fade to Blue
Bill Perry/5:39
9/Intro/Old Love
Eric Clapton / Robert Cray / Louis Small/6:25
10/How the Nights Can Fly
Bob Lind/5:14
11/Comin' Back to Me
Marty Balin/3:26
12/Don't Pass It Up
Greg Chansky/4:50
13/At a Glance
Greg Chansky/3:40
Ed Barretini /Drums, Vocals (Background)
Greg Chansky /Guitar
Paul Chansky /Keyboards
Richie Havens /Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Sitar, Vocals
Jimmie Mack /Bass, Vocals (Background)
Chuck Mangione /Flugelhorn, Guest Artist
Bill Perry /Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
Louis Small /Keyboards
REVIEW
by Ron Wynn
Guitarist/composer Richie Havens keeps making thought-provoking, poignant and intensely personal music, with few (if any) romantic songs and frank discussions of issues without violent or sexist rhetoric. This is Havens' first solo release in several years, and it contains only one original. But his covers of songs by Sting, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Lind and Marty Balin become his own memorable statements, while guitarist Billy Perry and guest guitarist Greg Chansky provide three new compositions. Although this doesn't have the same resonance as his great 1960s LPs, it's a worthy vehicle for the 1990s.
BIOGRAPHY
by William Ruhlmann
BORN: JANUARY 21, 1941 IN BROOKLYN, NY
DIED: APRIL 22, 2013
Born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Richie Havens moved to Greenwich Village in 1961 in time to get in on the folk boom then taking place. Havens had a distinctive style as a folksinger, appearing in such clubs as the Cafe Wha? His guitar set to an opening tuning, he would strum it while barring chords with his thumb, using it essentially as percussion while singing rhythmically in a gruff voice for a mesmerizing effect. Havens was signed to Douglas Records in 1965 and recorded two albums that gained him a local following. In 1967, the Verve division of MGM Records formed a folk section (Verve Forecast) and signed Havens and other folk-based performers. The result was Havens' third album, Mixed Bag. It wasn't until 1968 and the Something Else Again album, however, that Havens began to hit the charts -- actually, Havens' fourth, third, and second albums charted that year, in that order. In 1969 came the double album Richard P. Havens 1983.
Havens' career benefited enormously from his appearance at the Woodstock festival in 1969 and his subsequent featured role in the movie and album made from the concert in 1970. His first album after that exposure, Alarm Clock, made the Top 30 and produced a Top 20 single in "Here Comes the Sun." These recordings were Havens' commercial high watermark, but by this time he had become an international touring success. By the end of the '70s, he had abandoned recording and turned entirely to live work. Havens came back to records with a flurry of releases in 1987: a new album, Simple Things; an album of Bob Dylan and Beatles covers; and a compilation. In 1991, Havens signed his first major-label deal in 15 years when he moved to Sony Music and released Now. Nobody Left to Crown was issued by Verve Forecast in 2008.
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