The Legend Ritchie Havens, His Top Five Albums – ‘Mixed Bag’ LP [VIDEOS]

If you want music so appropriate to the late 60's, early 70's then haven's LP titled ' Mixed Bag' is the perfect album for you, The album itself was released in 1967.

'Mixed Bag' is a unique album in many ways it is a fantastic showcase of Richie's voice, his unique style of guitar strumming, his unique song interpretation of "Eleanor Rigby" (Lennon - McCartney) and "Just Like A Woman" (Bob Dylan) and his trademark of open - tuning.

He penned two songs on the LP, "Adam" and "Three Day Eternity", another unique factor is that he co -wrote "Handsome Johnny" with the actor Lou Gossett Jr.

'Mixed Bag' was Haven's third LP yet first on a major record label, (Verve). On the album there's was just enough ambiance of jazz that it actually charted on the jazz charts reaching #18, however; it didn't fair so well on the pop chart reaching #182 in the Top 200.

CD Track List:

• "High Flyin' Bird"
• "I Can't Make It Anymore"
• "Morning, Morning"
• "Adam"
• "Follow"
• "Three Day Eternity"
• "Sandy"
• "Handsome Johnny"
• San Francisco Bay Blues"
• "Just Like A Woman"
• Eleanor Rigby"

'Mixed Bag' is available on CD, LP and MP3.

Click on each album for a direct link or the tabs at the bottom of each page.

Richie Haven's performing, "Handsome Johnny":