Isle of Wight Festival, Afton Down, Isle of Wight, Britain, 8-27-1970 to 8-30-1970 - 8-30-1970: Part 9: Richie Havens

Here is the ninth and final album from the last day of the 1970 Isle of Wight festival. It's an acoustic set by Richie Havens.

Perhaps the festival organizers thought there would some positive symbolism to having Havens close the festival, since he was the act to open the 1969 Woodstock Festival, and their hope was this would be seen as the British version of Woodstock. 

When I first posted most of the music from this festival in 2023, I skipped the sets by Donovan, Joan Baez, and Havens, due to poor sound quality. We have soundboard recordings from nearly all the other acts, but only audience recordings from those three. But now, as I write this in 2026, I think the audio editing technology has improved enough for me to post these. Beware though, since the sound quality is still pretty rough. Only so much could be done.

That was especially the case with this Havens set. The good news is that he mostly performed in solo acoustic mode, although he was supplemented by some drumming and some other instruments on a few songs. That's good, because it's easier to get a clear recording from a solo acoustic performance than a full band one. But cutting against that was Havens' aggressive strumming style. There was a frequent problem of wind blowing against the microphones, and that was made worse by his style, with the microphone probably already near its limit. 

Luckily, I have an audio editing program, Izotope, that has a specific "de-wind" filter, as well as a "de-rustle" one. I used both of those on all the songs here, and it helped a lot. I used some other audio editing tricks as well. Read my write-up for the Donovan set for more information on that. The bottom line is, this sounds decent now, but still far from as good as most of the rest of the festival. Still, it's nice to have this, if you want to have as much from the festival as reasonable, like I do.

I included the rest of this write-up for the Leonard Cohen set when I posted it back in 2023. That's because the Cohen one was the last set from the festival that I posted at that time. But now that we have one after that one, I've moved that text from that album to here:

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So that's the end of the festival. All in all, I have to say that although the festival had some problems, in terms of music, the line-up was fantastic, and the recordings that have been made public contain a lot of great music. That's especially the case because so few festivals from this era were professionally recorded from start to finish like this one was. The only one that bests it, in my opinion, is Woodstock, because all of that has been released. 

Maybe someday there will be a complete release of this festival too, allowing us to hear the full sets from Kris Kristofferson, Mighty Baby, Supertramp, the Groundhogs, Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso, Fairfield Parlour (a.k.a. Kaleidoscope), Lighthouse, Family, Cactus, Shawn Phillips, Tiny Tim, Melanie, Ralph McTell, and more. If that happens, I think it would be an even more impressive musical document than Woodstock, with even more big name classic artists.

Oh, as an aside, the Everly Brothers, Mungo Jerry,  Cat Mother, Spirit, and Redbone were on the bill for the concert, but none of them actually played. There were a lot of last minute arguments with the promoters about getting paid, since it was common for musical acts to get stiffed at big festivals like this at the time. Here's a concert poster showing the acts, including those who didn't show. You can tell from the font size which ones were considered the biggest attractions.

In case you want to know more about the festival, there's an entire website about it here, with lots of photos and personal accounts:

https://www.ukrockfestivals.com/iow1970menu.html

If you attended, I'd be curious to hear your impressions. Was it a disaster, or great, or somewhere in between? I gather the vast majority of people who went had a good time, so I'd consider that a successful festival.

This album is an hour and one minute long. 

154 Maggie's Farm (Richie Havens)
155 Minstrel from the Gault (Richie Havens)
156 Fire and Rain (Richie Havens)
157 War (Richie Havens)
158 I'm a Stranger Here (Richie Havens)
159 The Parable of Ramon (Richie Havens)
160 Here Comes the Sun (Richie Havens)
161 Freedom - Run Shaker Run (Richie Havens)
162 talk (Richie Havens)
163 Hare Krishna (Richie Havens)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NB1fkJhs

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/UINy9WILdRLmo9B/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Children of the Americas Radiothon, United Nations Building, New York City, 11-18-1989, Part 1 - Warren Zevon, Graham Parker, Ten Years After, Etc...

Back in 2024, I posted a 1988 "Hungerthon" concert that took place at the United Nations (U.N.) building in New York City. This seems to have been a yearly event for some time. I couldn't find anything about the other years, but I found most or all of the 1989 concert, which also took place at the U.N. building. I found enough for three parts. Here's "Part 1."

It seems this concert took place in two stages on the same day. In the first stage, a bunch of less famous acts performed in the United Nations waiting room. This is a smaller venue, just outside of the General Assembly, where the U.N. diplomats meet and vote. These acts, all the ones included here, played to a relatively small crowd. I'm not sure if I have all of these acts. I did find a mention on the Internet that Poco also performed, but I couldn't find a recording of their set. So it's possible there were others I missed as well. If anyone has more, please let me know.

All the music here was broadcast live on a local radio station, which is why we have this with excellent sound quality. The downside though was that since it was a "radiothon" meant to raise money, there were very frequent appeals for donations. The phone number to call was pitched often, practically between every song. So I carefully edited all that out, since those appeals and that phone number are now defunct. I also had to do a lot of editing of the applause, because talkative DJs typically spoke mere moments after each song ended. But I think I was able to patch in enough applause, from spots where some applause was allowed, to make this sound coherent.

Also, for most of these musical acts, there were interviews, usually lasting a few minutes, right in the middle of each performance. I cut all those out. I want this to have replay value, and those interviews weren't so interesting. Most of these performances are solo acoustic in nature, but not all of them.

By the way, here's the link to the 1988 United Nations concert:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/06/various-artists-children-of-americas.html 

If anyone has these concerts from any other years (with worthy sound quality), please let me know and I'll try to post those as well.

As far as I know, these recordings have been very rare. I haven't seen them on any of the usual bootleg sharing sites. So hopefully this posting will get the music to a wider audience. 

This album is an hour and 45 minutes long.

01 Dance with Me Baby (Southside Johnny)
02 Little Calcutta (Southside Johnny)
03 talk (Southside Johnny)
04 Trapped Again (Southside Johnny)
05 The Horses (Rickie Lee Jones)
06 talk (Rickie Lee Jones)
07 On Saturday Afternoons in 1963 (Rickie Lee Jones)
08 Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner (Warren Zevon)
09 talk (Warren Zevon)
10 Boom Boom Mancini (Warren Zevon)
11 Splendid Isolation (Warren Zevon)
12 talk (Warren Zevon)
13 Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon with Paul Schaffer)
14 Rock and Roll Music to the World (Ten Years After)
15 Victim of Circumstance (Ten Years After)
16 I'm Going Home (Ten Years After)
17 talk (Ten Years After)
18 Choo Choo Mama (Ten Years After)
19 Drown in My Own Tears (David Bromberg)
20 talk (David Bromberg)
21 Summer Wages (David Bromberg)
22 Testify (David Bromberg)
23 Big Man on Paper (Graham Parker)
24 talk (Graham Parker)
25 Green Monkeys (Graham Parker)
26 talk (Graham Parker)
27 Slash and Burn (Graham Parker)
28 talk (Richie Havens)
29 They Dance Alone (Richie Havens)
30 Lives in the Balance (Richie Havens)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8Widw8qm

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/vYQYdYY00B8VCzb/file

I couldn't find ANY photos of any musicians performing in this concert. However, I did find some art relating to it, so I used that. The cover image here is from a T-shirt with a design created by famous artist Peter Max, especially for this concert. The text at the bottom is mostly the same, but I made some changes, especially adding all the text in red.

Various Artists - Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Benefit, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 5-3-2009, Part 2

Here's the second out of three parts for Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Benefit concert in 2009.

The concert was quite long, so I decided to split it into three parts. Perhaps in retrospect it would have made more sense to split it into two parts, because the concert reached a sort of emotional peak right in the middle with a group singalong of "We Shall Overcome." It seems an intermission followed that. But what's done is done, and I think it's a good listen this way as well.

Also, Seeger's direct participation is rather strange. He stayed off the stage for most of this concert that was dedicated to him, but he occasionally took part. For instance, he did a solo version of "Amazing Grace" in this part. He returned for the final part. 

One weird thing about this part of this concert is that one song, "Garbage, Garbage, Garbage," was basically a duet between Tom Chapin, a human, and Oscar the Grouch, a Muppet famous for his long role on the TV show "Sesame Street." Normally, I would find this sort of thing silly or gimmicky. But in this case, I think it worked nicely. You can decide for yourself. 

By the way, when I first posted "Part 1" a few days ago, I forgot to include "Part 1" in the title and artwork. That has now been fixed. So you might want to re-download it.

Also, note that the numbering in the song list starts with 21, in case you want to put all three of the albums from this concert into the same folder, to make it easier to listen to the entire concert all at once. 

This album is 51 minutes long.

21 Dink's Song [Fare Thee Well] (Bruce Cockburn, Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Rufus & Martha Wainwright)
22 talk (Tony Triaschka)
23 D-Minor Flourish - Blue Skies - Goofing-Off Suite - Happy Birthday (Bela Fleck & Tony Triaschka)
24 Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (Tom Morello & Taj Mahal)
25 Where Have All the Flowers Gone (Joan Baez)
26 Bring 'Em Home (Ben Bridwell, Patterson Hood, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Tyler Ramsey & Warren Haynes)
27 We Shall Overcome (Everyone)
28 talk (Norman Lear)
29 talk (Pete Seeger)
30 Amazing Grace (Pete Seeger)
31 talk (Tom Chapin & Oscar the Grouch)
32 Garbage, Garbage, Garbage (Tom Chapin, Michael Mark & Oscar the Grouch)
33 talk (Kris Kristofferson)
34 A Hole in the Bucket (Kris Kristofferson & Ani DiFranco)
35 Little Boxes (Tommy Sands Irish Band)
36 Michael, Row the Boat Ashore (Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Tony Trischka & Tim Robbins)
37 Freedom (Richie Havens) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/KRkaXqaV

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/ggUyjMIHnWrDd5Q/file

The cover image is taken from the video of this exact concert. It shows Kris Kristofferson and Ani Di Franco when they duetted on the song "A Hole in the Bucket." 

Richie Haven - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Mean Fiddler, London, Britain, 2-16-1995

Here's an acoustic concert done for the BBC by Richie Havens. 

Once again, I have this thanks to musical associate Progsprog. I didn't even know to look for it until he came along, so it was quite obscure.  

By this point, not many people were paying attention to new Havens albums. In fact, none of the songs here are from his most recent studio album at the time, "Cuts to the Chase," released in 1994. But he still sounded and played as if no time had passed since his heyday in the late 1960s and early 70s. Most of the songs are from back then as well.

This unreleased album is 52 minutes long. 

01 Nobody Left to Crown (Richie Havens)
02 Tupelo Honey - Just like a Woman (Richie Havens)
03 The Long Road (Richie Havens)
04 The Times They Are A-Changin' (Richie Havens)
05 Here Comes the Sun (Richie Havens)
06 Dear John - Good Day Sunshine (Richie Havens)
07 Zodiac (Richie Havens)
08 Freedom - I Just Came Here (Richie Havens)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/noWTA5vP

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/X37XmlInM5NICeD/file

The cover photo was taken backstage at the Summer Folk Festival in Burnsville, Minnesota on June 25, 1995. I darkened the background.

Various Artists - Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, 9-12-1970

In 1967, legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie died after being bedridden with health problems for many years. In early 1968, there was a tribute concert for him in New York City. Then, in 1970, there was a second tribute concert for him in Los Angeles, which is presented here. I'm not sure why it was thought a second concert was needed, but perhaps it was for people on the West Coast. Highlights of both concerts were combined onto one album, which was released in 1972. 

Like the 1968 show, this one had spoken word recitations between many of the songs. In my opinion, the music bears many repeat listenings, but I get bored with the spoken word parts. So this is a version of just the music, exactly the same as I did with my earlier post of the 1968 concert. Decades later, both concerts were officially released in full, so this recording comes from that.

Many of the musical acts in this concert were the same as the one in the 1968. Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, Pete Seeger, and Odetta took part in both. However, the undoubted biggest name of the 1968 concert was Bob Dylan, and he wasn't present here. But another big star in the folk music world, Joan Baez, was only present here. That was also the case for Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Country Joe McDonald, and Earl Robinson. This concert also was half an hour longer.

If you prefer always listening to this with the spoken word recitations, you have the official album version for that. I'm just giving you a different option.

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long.

01 Oklahoma Hills (Arlo Guthrie)
02 So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh [Dusty Old Dust] (Pete Seeger & Joan Baez)
03 Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Country Joe McDonald, Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie)
04 Hobo's Lullaby (Joan Baez)
05 Ramblin' Round (Odetta)
06 I Ain't Got No Home (Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie)
07 Pretty Boy Floyd (Country Joe McDonald)
08 Nine Hundred Miles (Richie Havens)
09 Plane Wreck at Los Gatos [Deportee] (Joan Baez)
10 John Hardy (Odetta)
11 Hard Travelin' (Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Country Joe McDonald, Earl Robinson, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie & Joan Baez)
12 Vigilante Man (Richie Havens)
13 1913 Massacre (Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
14 Do Re Mi (Arlo Guthrie)
15 Pastures of Plenty (Joan Baez)
16 Roll On Columbia (Earl Robinson & Pete Seeger)
17 Mail Myself to You (Earl Robinson)
18 Howdido (Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
19 Woman at Home (Country Joe McDonald)
20 The Sinking of the Reuben James (Pete Seeger)
21 Jesus Christ (Arlo Guthrie)
22 I've Got to Know (Arlo Guthrie & Joan Baez)
23 This Train Is Bound for Glory (Country Joe McDonald, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez & Odetta)
24 This Land Is Your Land - So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh [Dusty Old Dust] (Everybody)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NPeRiSD5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/eVOGzmZgFPw3LgA/file 

The cover image is from this exact concert. From right to left, that's Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Odetta, Pete Seeger, and Arlo Guthrie. It's from the final encore. However, I had to do some Photoshop editing to get everyone to fit in with a decent size. The singers were standing with some big gaps of empty space between the microphones, so I moved them much closer together.

Richie Havens - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-20-1982

Here's the third and probably last of BBC albums for folk singer Richie Havens. (I say "probably" since there's no telling what might eventually pop up.) It's a concert from 1982.

Back in the early 1980s, the annual Glastonbury Festival was a lot smaller and didn't have the reputation it had later. The BBC very rarely broadcast anything from the festival prior to 1985, but luckily this concert is an exception.

This is not the full concert, but we're lucky to have this much, because I found two separate parts and put them together. The first three tracks are from one source, and the rest are from another. I'm guessing one came before the other, and I don't know what happened in between. The first song of the second section, "Just like a Woman," started about halfway through the song. So I found a different live version, from 1976, and patched that in to complete it. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.

Everything here is officially unreleased. Havens played the whole concert in solo acoustic mode, as was his usual style then. If there was any banter between songs, nearly all of it got edited out, because there's only a little bit before the first song here.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 talk (Richie Havens)
02 Nobody Left to Crown (Richie Havens)
03 The Last One (Richie Havens)
04 Just like a Woman [Edit] (Richie Havens)
05 No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed (Richie Havens)
06 Here Comes the Sun (Richie Havens)
07 Younger Men Grow Older (Richie Havens)
08 Long Train Runnin' (Richie Havens)
09 Wild Night (Richie Havens)
10 Here Again (Richie Havens)
11 Zodiac (Richie Havens)
12 Freedom (Richie Havens)
13 You Are So Beautiful (Richie Havens)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/r67YZ3fE

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/GKGF2UQUsZ4TSQs/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. I took a screenshot of a low-res YouTube video. Then I used Krea AI to sharpen it up some.

Richie Havens - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1967-1971

Here's a collection of acoustic BBC studio sessions by Richie Havens.

The first three songs here aren't actually from the BBC. But they're unreleased, with excellent sound quality, and are from a very early time in his career, so I figure they're historically important. They're from an appearance on the "Gene Shay's Folklore" radio show in Philadelphia in 1967.

The next three songs, tracks four to six, are from an appearance on BBC DJ John Peel's radio show in May 1968. Then the next four songs, tracks seven to ten, are from another appearance on that same show in June 1968.

So far, everything has been unreleased. But the last three songs have been officially released. They come from the live album "On Stage." This double album has songs from different sources, and according to the liner notes, three of the songs are from a BBC TV show in October 1971. If there's any more of this show, I haven't been able to find it. Since all the other songs on this album don't have any audience noise, I removed the cheering from the last three songs using the MVSEP audio editing program.

Note that I previously posted a Richie Havens BBC concert from 1974. Now that I'm posting this, I've just renamed that one to "BBC Sessions, Volume 2," and changed the cover art and mp3 tags accordingly. If you want the updated version of that one, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/06/richie-havens-bbc-in-concert-london.html

This album is an hour and six minutes long.

01 San Francisco Bay Blues (Richie Havens)
02 Adam (Richie Havens)
03 Hampstead Incident (Richie Havens)
04 From the Prison (Richie Havens)
05 Just Above My Hobby Horses' Head (Richie Havens)
06 I Can’t Make It Anymore (Richie Havens)
07 Handsome Johnny (Richie Havens)
08 The Things that I Used to Do (Richie Havens)
09 High Flying Bird (Richie Havens)
10 The Dolphins (Richie Havens)
11 Younger Men (Richie Havens)
12 Old Friends (Richie Havens)
13 God Bless the Child (Richie Havens)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/HQyjt7XE

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Gp6bebGmMOwVwFu/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on a TV show in Denmark in 1969.

Various Artists - A Musical Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 1-20-1968

In October 1967, one of the all-time musical greats, Woody Guthrie, died at the age of 55. His health started declining in the late 1940s, and in 1952 he was diagnosed with Huntington's Disease, which causes a gradual decline in motor skills and mental abilities. He was hospitalized continuously from 1956 until his death. From the early 1960s onward, Bob Dylan regularly visited him in the hospital and sang songs for him, but so did Pete Seeger and many other folk singers.

Back in the 1960s, musical tribute concerts weren't really a thing yet, but Guthie was such a towering figure that there actually were three such concerts. I plan on posting all three eventually. This is the natural way to start, since it came first chronologically.

This concert was officially released in full as the album "A Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Part 1," in 1972. In 1970, another tribute concert for him happened, and that was eventually released as "A Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Part 2." Then, decades later, highlights from the two were combined onto one CD simply called "A Tribute to Woody Guthrie." 

Normally, I wouldn't post something that has been officially released in full. But I think in this case I can made a more listenable album by subtraction. What I mean is, the 1968 concert was a combination of songs that were sung and spoken word/poetry that was read, going back and forth between the two. I think the songs have a lot of relistening value, but I don't want to hear the spoken word parts that often. So I deleted almost twenty tracks of that, keeping just the music. If you want the full version, the official album is for you.

In removing those tracks, I was careful to manage the applause at the end of each song, since the spoken word part often started while the cheering was still going on. In some cases, I was able to fade the cheering down to bring it to a natural end. But when it was too short for that, I pasted in some cheering from the ends to other songs.

Now, let's get to the music, which consists entirely of songs written by Woody Guthrie, or cover songs he was closely associated with. This concert is most famous due to the appearance of Bob Dylan and the Band. It was important for several reasons. This was Dylan's first public performance since his motorcycle accident a year and a half earlier. It seems he wasn't actually that seriously injured in that accident, and it certainly didn't take him years to recover. But he'd been living a fast and crazy life of stardom and wanted to step away from all that for a while, and the accident gave him an excuse to go into seclusion. After this concert, Dylan basically went back into seclusion for another year or so. But he considered Woody Guthrie so important to his life that he made this rare public appearance during that time anyway.

Also important was the fact that Dylan was backed by the Band. Most members of the Band had backed him on a 1966 tour, and then during his "Basement Tapes" studio sessions in 1967. But at the time of this concert, they still hadn't made a name for themselves... both figuratively and literally! Since they literally didn't have a name to call themselves yet, for this concert, they were billed as "The Crackers," weirdly enough. Later in 1968, the Band would release their first studio album, "Music from Big Pink," to great critical acclaim. They would continue to back Dylan on other projects, including the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival concert and a 1974 tour. This concert was critical to their early career as well as their evolving musical connection with Dylan.

By the way, in addition to playing three songs with the Band, Dylan sang on two others: "This Train Is Bound for Glory" and the finale, "This Land Is Your Land." His voice is just one of many on the finale. As for "This Train Is Bound for Glory," he sang a verse on his own. Unfortunately, the album only included about a 30-second long snippet of that song, and his part wasn't included. I didn't include that snippet since I found it frustrating to only have a bit of the song. I'm guessing there was a flaw with the recording for much of the song.

The other stars of the concert were some of the biggest names in folk music at the time: Arlo Guthrie (Woody Guthrie's son, who had just hit it big with "Alice's Restaurant" in 1967), Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Richie Havens, and Tom Paxton. (I was asked the other day if I could post something by Pete Seeger. I couldn't think of anything worth posting. But then I remembered this concert.)

If you want to know more about this concert, here's an article in Rolling Stone Magazine about it that came out just a month after it took place:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-dylan-turns-up-for-woody-guthrie-memorial-197917/

This album is 56 minutes long.

01 Oklahoma Hills (Arlo Guthrie)
02 So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh [Dusty Old Dust] (Judy Collins)
03 Curly Headed Baby (Pete Seeger)
04 Ramblin' Round (Odetta)
05 Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie & Judy Collins)
06 Pretty Boy Floyd (Tom Paxton)
07 I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water (Richie Havens)
08 Plane Wreck at Los Gatos [Deportee] (Judy Collins)
09 Vigilante Man (Richie Havens)
10 Pastures of Plenty (Tom Paxton)
11 Grand Coulee Dam (Bob Dylan & the Band)
12 Dear Mrs. Roosevelt (Bob Dylan & the Band)
13 I Ain't Got No Home (Bob Dylan & the Band)
14 Roll On Columbia [Edit] (Judy Collins)
15 Jackhammer John (Pete Seeger & Richie Havens)
16 Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done [The Great Historical Bum] (Tom Paxton)
17 Union Maid (Judy Collins & Pete Seeger)
18 This Land Is Your Land (Will Geer, Arlo Guthrie, Odetta & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wudwts4E

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/H3caez7gw5rZPBY/file

What a historic photo for the cover! From left to right, that's Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Arlo Guthrie. I found a bunch of photos from this concert, but all of them were in black and white. I picked this one, and then colorized it with the Kolorize.cc program. It did a really good job, including picking the colors. I only had to make a few fixes in Photoshop.

Richie Havens - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, London, Britain, 1-2-1974

The excellent 1970s BBC TV show "In Concert" is featured yet again. This time, American folk singer Richie Havens was featured. But this was an unusual show in that nearly all such shows were only about half an hour long, but this one is an hour long. It turns out the first half of this show appeared on TV in January 1974, and the second half was shown in July 1974. (Probably, it was recorded in late 1973, but I don't know the exact date, so I'm using the date of the first broadcast.)

As I post this in June 2022, both episodes can be found on YouTube. The band members are wearing the same outfits and playing the same equipment on the same stage, confirming it was two parts of one concert.

Havens performed with three others, but the sound remained acoustic. For instance, the drummer played bongos instead of a full drum kit. With the concert being double the usual length for this show, he was able to play all the songs he was best known for, including his big hit, a cover of "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles, and "Freedom," which was a famous highlight of the Woodstock festival in 1969.

For whatever reason, there's almost no talking between songs. I guess he wanted to make the most of his limited time, or those bits were edited out.

This album is 59 minutes long.

UPDATE: On January 21, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. I changed the album name to "BBC Sessions, Volume 2" after discovering material for a "Volume 1." So I updated the cover art and mp3 tags. The music remains the same.

01 Minstrel from Gaul (Richie Havens)
02 Lean on Me (Richie Havens)
03 What about Me (Richie Havens)
04 Tupelo Honey - Just like a Woman (Richie Havens)
05 Wandering Angus (Richie Havens)
06 Here Comes the Sun (Richie Havens)
07 High Flying Bird (Richie Havens)
08 Dreaming My Life Away (Richie Havens)
09 talk (Richie Havens)
10 Handsome Johnny (Richie Havens)
11 Freedom (Richie Havens)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/B21df6bV

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/GmI9b2or6dE92Zj/file

The cover photo is a screenshot I took from the YouTube video of this exact concert. The opening credits were included in the video, so I was able to use the same colors as those credits. However, I added the bottom line of text with additional information.