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Album Information

  Name Mixed Bag
  Type studio
  Artist Richie Havens
  Cover Havens-Mixed_Bagjpg
  Released August 16, 1967
  Recorded Early 1967
  Genre Folk , Jazz , Singer-songwriter
  Length 37:54
  Label Verve
  Producer John Court
  Last Album ''Electric Havens'' <br>(1968)
  This Album ''Mixed Bag''<br>(1967)
  Next Album ''Something Else Again''<br>(1968)


''Mixed Bag'' is a 1967 album by '', '''65''', August-September 1968, p. 44-47

''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 Haven's rich Baritone vocals and the full-sound of Haven's distinct guitar style (thumb-chorded and played in Open E Tuning ).


TRACK LISTING


# "High Flyin' Bird" ( Wheeler ) – 3:35
# "I Can't Make It Anymore" ( Lightfoot ) – 2:48
# "Morning, Morning" ( Kupferberg ) – 2:17
# "Adam" ( Havens ) – 3:34
# "Follow" ( Merrick ) – 6:22
# "Three Day Eternity" (Havens) – 2:15
# "Sandy" ( Cousineau ) – 3:12
# " Handsome Johnny " ( Gossett , Havens) – 3:53
# " San Francisco Bay Blues " ( Fuller ) – 2:30
# " Just Like A Woman " ( Dylan ) – 4:46
# " Eleanor Rigby " ( Lennon , McCartney ) – 2:42


CREDITS





CHARTS




RELEASES

The album was initially released on Vinyl in 1967 on Verve Forcast, a newly formed Folk section at the Verve division of MGM Records . It was re-released as a Compact Disk 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.Brian Mathieson, Richie Havens Recordings( link )


TRIVIA

  • ', 30:4''', April 1996, p. 37-42

  • In 1974 Havens released '' Mixed Bag II ''



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