Video - Richie Havens: Folk Revival
Richie Havens - the 60s folk revival
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Richie Havens is a living link to the heyday of the folk singer-songwriter in New York's Greenwich Village, a place which revered Woody Guthrie and shaped Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, among others. For them, the guitar was an instrument of protest as powerful as the gun.
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