{"id":18444,"date":"2013-04-22T22:37:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T02:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=18444"},"modified":"2013-04-23T07:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T11:03:35","slug":"richie-havens-dead-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/richie-havens-dead-at-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Richie Havens Dead at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBbXKsKXyNU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p><a title=\"Richie Havens dead at 72\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/richie-havens-folk-icon-dead-at-72-20130422\" target=\"_blank\">Richie Havens died from a heart attack today at 72<\/a>. Best known for opening Woodstock with his hyper-strumming, thumb fretting, and rich voice, he may have been Larry Doby to Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s Jackie Robinson of the Love Generation, boldly making Beatles songs his own and making his mark in the music business for primarily white, <em>hippified<\/em> audiences.<\/p>\n<p>By what accounts I&#8217;ve seen\u2014and hell, it&#8217;s just a sense you get from the guy, isn&#8217;t it\u2014Havens was a <em>great<\/em>&#8230;man. He sprinkled his hippie cred over Bill Clinton&#8217;s 1993 inauguration.\u00a0A man of peace, he was a friend to the Society of Friends, having <a title=\"Richie Havens at AFS\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/1994-03-09\/news\/25848281_1_richie-havens-drawings-ecology\" target=\"_blank\">exhibited his drawings and spoke to kids at my old school in 1994<\/a> (long after I&#8217;d graduated, I might add).<\/p>\n<p>Havens&#8217; style was so distinctive that it lent itself to parody. I can&#8217;t even tell if his music holds up half as well as what he represented or a quarter as well as his warm, generous spirit. Can his music hold a candle to the way he held his guitar, and is there any reason to doubt that&#8217;s enough?<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0emW4m63GeM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richie Havens died from a heart attack today at 72. Best known for opening Woodstock with his hyper-strumming, thumb fretting, and rich voice, he may have been Larry Doby to Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s Jackie Robinson of the Love Generation, boldly making Beatles songs his own and making his mark in the music business for primarily white, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/richie-havens-dead-at-72\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}