Richie Havens

More than a Woodstock moment

by Sandor Slomovits

posted 7/8/2010

For many, the name Richie Havens is synonymous with the famed 1969 Woodstock Festival. His electrifying performance of "Freedom," highlighted in the subsequent movie, made him internationally famous and boosted a career that had begun blossoming nearly a decade earlier. But to think of those few minutes on film as the high-water mark of Havens' life in music

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