![]() ![]() It’s because too many of us remembered that voice to let it subside into memory’s hollows. If Richie Havens is a household name now, in households with a radio or a television, where he can be heard several times an hour singing the praises of such quintessential entities as Amtrak, McDonald’s and Folger’s coffee, it’s because that voice stayed with us, trailed us through the years, from the dawning of Woodstock through the draining decades of our discontent. and down on into Chinatown, across Alphabet City to the river, this all-encompassing, ancient, bottomless, almost religious voice reverberates against the vacant and corroded buildings of the heart and the memory, evoking forever that eyes-on-the-prize-on-the-horizon feeling of nearly every scuffling straggler to set up a hat in front of an acoustic guitar in the service of a utopian folk vision that surpasseth understanding. Booming out of those frozen pipes and bellowing across Houston St. 3rd, peaked on Bleecker, and pined for slum goddesses in the three Squares of Greenwich Village: Sheridan, Washington, and Tompkins, the voice of Richie Havens is right alongside the image of Bob Dylan squinting into the far distance as he walked arm in arm with Suzy Rotolo down a snowy Jones Street in the winter of ’61 on the cover of Freewheeling, collar up against the wind. For a generation that grew up in the ’60s on MacDougal Street at four in the morning, came of age on W. IT’S A VOICE you remember, possessing in its cavernous reaches the smoky essence of an age. The Bleecker Street Tapes is available at The Book House and other independent book shops across the country.īy Bruce Pollock Richie Havens on the cover of My Own Way (Image: Discogs) Through the tortuous journey to T he Johnny Carson Show and national awareness, he always kept his exemplary cosmic cool. We applauded his self-taught, self-made approach and ascent as he tackled and redefined songs by Dylan, The Beatles, and Jerry Merrick. “He was literally someone we followed from the streets and basket houses of the Village to the bigger stages of Carnegie Recital Hall and Woodstock. ![]() “Even more than the regulars, like Dave Van Ronk, Eric Andersen and Phil Ochs, the denizens of the Gaslight will always hold a special place in their hearts for Richie Havens,” Pollock explains. One of Pollock’s favorite chapters in the book concerns the great Richie Havens, and Rock & Roll Globe is honored to share this excerpt today on the site. Among the artists featured within its pages include Dave Van Ronk, Peter, Paul & Mary, Melanie, Roger McGuinn, Buffy Saint-Marie, John Sebastian, Peter Tork, Janis Ian, The Roches, Suzanne Vega and Leonard Cohen among others. His new book The Bleecker Street Tapes: Echoes of Greenwich Village is out now on Trouser Press Books, and offers a collection of profiles and essays chronicling the Village folk movement from the ’60s through the ’80s. Bruce Pollock is a veteran music journalist and longtime Village resident who was out and about regularly during this halcyon period in lower Manhattan. It was a wellspring of creativity that instilled a political idealism into youth culture through music, fashion and the written word. The folk scene in New York’s Greenwich Village during the 1960s has been the source of movie magic and classic literature. S04E06 - Maisel vs.Bruce Pollock The Bleecker Street Tapes: Echoes of Greenwich Village, Trouser Press Books 2023 S04E05 - How to Chew Quietly and Influence People S04E04 - Interesting People on Christopher Street S03E08 - A Jewish Girl Walks Into the Apollo Season 4 S02E09 - Vote for Kennedy, Vote for Kennedy S01E08 - Thank You and Goodnight Season 2 ![]() S01E04 - The Disappointment of the Dionne Quintuplets S01E02 - Ya Shivu v Bolshom Dome Na Kholme This includes links to illegally hosted content, irregular streaming websites, and torrents.īe Civil. Links to illegally hosted content will be removed. Please avoid using spoilers in title, and please mark posts with spoiler tag if there is a major spoiler from the show. No spoilers in titles! Please use spoiler tags where applicable. Content without any significant commentary relevant to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel', created by Amy Sherman-Palladino ('Gilmore Girls') Subreddit for the Amazon TV show ' The Marvelous Mrs. ![]()
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