Reliving the '60s ; Richie Havens Recalls Woodstock 40 Years Later

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Like so many other people who grew up in the 1960s, my first glimpse of Richie Havens was in the Woodstock concert movie.

I still remember being surprised by the sight of him -- a big, gangly dude, flailing away on his acoustic guitar, dancing around the stage, whipping 400,000 people into a frenzy. That was four decades ago. Thursday night, the now 68-year-old Havens played to maybe 500 people in the Mary Seaton Room, but he still flails away on his guitar, still sings with soul and passion and still knows how to get an audience going.

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Reliving the '60s ; Richie Havens Recalls Woodstock 40 Years Later

It was not a perfect show. Havens had a hard time keeping his guitar in tune, and I could...

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