Richie Havens Something Else (LP Vinyl)

Released posthumously in 2015, two years after Havens passed away in April 2013, Something Else stands as a final document from one of the most viscerally alive performers the Village folk scene ever produced. Sundazed’s vinyl release gives the album the warm analog treatment it deserves, a fitting format for an artist whose open-tuned, percussive guitar style was always about physical presence and feel.

Freedom. The very mention of the song conjures images of Richie Havens at Woodstock, fiercely strumming his guitar and lost in an improvisational moment of creation. An intensely engaging performer, Havens honed his craft in the cafes and clubs of Greenwich Village, just over the bridge from his native Brooklyn. Painter, poet and multi-instrumentalist, Havens immersed himself in the Villages beatnik culture just as the nascent folk scene began to develop. Connecting with uber-manager Albert Grossman, then guiding the careers of Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary, Havens rose to the top of the international folk movement.

Tracklist

Side A

1.No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed (3:00)2.Inside Of Him (4:27)3.The Klan (4:31)4.Sugarplums (2:54)5.Don’t Listen To Me (4:25)

Side B

1.From The Prison (3:40)2.Maggie’s Farm (4:35)3.Somethin’ Else Again (7:26)4.New City (2:50)5.Run, Shaker Life (5:45)

UPC: 090771547712
Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
Release Date: 3.31.15
Format: LP Vinyl