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Mixed Bag

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Released
  
very late 1966

Label
  
Verve

Length
  
37:54

Producer
  
John Court

Recorded
  
July7, September 12 & 20, 1966

Genre
  
folk, jazz, singer-songwriter

Mixed Bag is the 1966 debut album by Richie Havens. Although it was Havens' first album release, Douglas Records later issued two unauthorized albums of material that had been recorded prior to the Mixed Bag recording sessions—Electric Havens (1968) and Richie Havens' Record (1969). Mixed Bag was released after Havens signed on with manager Albert Grossman and was released on Verve Folkways, a new folk music imprint of Verve Records.

Contents

Mixed Bag is frequently cited as the singer's best work, and was his first album to appear on Billboard's charts (appearing on both the jazz and pop charts). The recording was the first to introduce a wider audience to Havens's rich baritone vocals and the full-sound of Havens's distinct guitar style (thumb-chorded and played in open D tuning).

Track listing

  1. "High Flyin' Bird" (Billy Edd Wheeler) – 3:35
  2. "I Can't Make It Anymore" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 2:48
  3. "Morning, Morning" (Tuli Kupferberg) – 2:17
  4. "Adam" (Havens) – 3:34
  5. "Follow" (Jerry Merrick) – 6:22
  6. "Three Day Eternity" (Havens) – 2:15
  7. "Sandy" (Jean Pierre Cousineau) – 3:12
  8. "Handsome Johnny" (Louis Gossett Jr., Havens) – 3:53
  9. "San Francisco Bay Blues" (Jesse Fuller) – 2:30
  10. "Just Like a Woman" (Bob Dylan) – 4:46
  11. "Eleanor Rigby" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:42

Personnel

  • Richie Havens - guitar, sitar, vocals
  • Harvey Brooks - bass
  • Paul Harris - organ, piano, keyboards
  • Bill LaVorgna - drums
  • Howard Collins - guitar
  • Joe Price - tabla on "Adam"
  • Paul "Dino" Williams - acoustic guitar on "Follow"
  • Cover photo - Barry Feinstein
  • Director of engineering - Val Valentin
  • Produced by Groscourt Productions, Inc.
  • Production Supervisor — Jerry Schoenbaum
  • Arranged by Bruce Langhorne for "I Can't Make It Anymore"
  • Arranged by Felix Pappalardi for "Morning, Morning"
  • Mastered for Compact Disc by Dennis M. Drake at PolyGram Studios

    • Releases

    The album was initially released on vinyl in 1966 on Verve Folkways, a newly formed folk section at the Verve division of MGM Records. It was re-released as a CD in 1993 on Polygram. In 2004, Mixed Bag was combined with two other Havens albums on a double CD titled, Flyin' Bird: The Verve Forecast Years, a limited edition release of 3000 individually numbered copies.

    Trivia

  • Electric Havens and Mixed Bag were two of the records reported among the personal collection of Haven's one-time Greenwich Village buddy, Jimi Hendrix.

    • References

    Mixed Bag Wikipedia
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