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Richie Havens
Here’s a picture I took for Rhino some years ago to publicize one of their records. I met Richie Havens in 1962 or ’63 when I was in The Modern Folk Quartet. Our group and Richie Havens were both playing in a Ford Motor Company college concert tour called “The Ford Folk And Jazz Wing Ding.” We traveled in Ford station wagons and went all over the Northeast to big colleges and got to be really good friends with Richie. He had those big hands and a kind of strumming style where he tuned to a chord and just fretted with one finger –a tremendous, driving strumming style. Years later he became the spokesman for the cotton industry, and you would always hear his voice; I always loved that, ‘cause it was our old friend Richie Havens. When Rhino asked me to go take his picture at a motel in Hollywood, we had a great time reminiscing about those old days, talking about all the other guys on the tour and how funny it all was.
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Volume XVIV
December 2004
