Richie Havens: 1941-2013

Rest in peace, Richie Havens.



リッチー・ヘブンスさん死去　ウッドストック出演の歌手

リッチー・ヘブンスさん（米フォーク歌手）が、ロイター通信によると、２２日、心臓発作のため米ニュージャージー州の自宅で死去、７２歳。
ビートルズやボブ・ディランなどの名曲をギターと歌でカバー。１９６９年に野外音楽祭「ウッドストック・フェスティバル」のオープニングで歌い、一躍知られるようになった。即興でゴスペルをアレンジした「フリーダム」はヒッピー世代の代表曲となった。
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Remembering folk singer Richie Havens

A Tribute to Woody Guthrie 1968

All Along The Watchtower (Rhythm Festival, Bedford, UK. 2008)

I Pity the Poor Immigrant (Album - Richard P. Havens, 1983 - 1969)

If Not for You (Album - The End of the Beginning - 1976)

Baby Blue (It's All Over Now, Baby Blue) (Album - Stonehenge - 1970)

Just like a woman (Madison Square Garden 1992)

Maggie's Farm/Won't Get Fooled Again (HSB 2009)

Oxford Town (Album - Electric Havens - 1968)

Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands (Album - Mixed Bag II - 1974)

License To Kill (Power Play Sound Stage 2006)

Tombstone Blues (I'm Not There 2007)

▼Five reasons Woodstock star Richie Havens stood out (The Week)

He had a great ear for a cover song: Havens wrote his own songs, but he made his name covering and rearranging songs by Bob Dylan (Just Like a Woman, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue) and the Beatles (With a Little Help from My Friends, Eleanor Rigby). "Music is the major form of communication," he told Rolling Stone in 1968. "It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids."