{"id":331,"date":"2025-01-20T10:21:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T10:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/scott-johnson-on-richie-havens\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T10:21:53","slug":"scott-johnson-on-richie-havens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/scott-johnson-on-richie-havens\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Johnson on Richie Havens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2025\/01\/sunday-morning-coming-down-197.php\">Powerline<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Havens grew up in Brooklyn singing with a choir in church and with doo wop groups on street corners. He crossed the river to figure out how to make a go of it in Greenwich Village as a performer. He recorded two albums on Douglas Records before he signed a contract with Verve Forecast in 1967. He seemed to materialize out of nowhere that year with&#0160;<em>Mixed Bag<\/em>, a beautiful album of folk covers and original compositions. The album was full of striking performances, but none more so than Havens\u2019s interpretation of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cJust Like A Woman.\u201d By the way, I may need to take a break from what is meant to be an occasional series until we celebrate Bob\u2019s birthday next May with our traditional Bobfest.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">By the way, did you catch Amy Klobuchar&#39;s oblique reference to Dylan at the Trump Inaugural? And what a speech our boy gave! He can turn on the <em>gravitas<\/em> when he wants to and needs to.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerline: Havens grew up in Brooklyn singing with a choir in church and with doo wop groups on street corners. He crossed the river to figure out how to make a go of it in Greenwich Village as a performer. He recorded two albums on Douglas Records before he signed a contract with Verve Forecast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/scott-johnson-on-richie-havens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scott Johnson on Richie Havens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,56,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-politics","category-sixties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}