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Live at the Cellar Door
Richie Havens
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Published: Jan 01, 2005
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Rock
Live at the Cellar Door
Richie Havens
I missed Woodstock .
But I lived vicariously through a skinny, stoned red-headed girl in my freshman class in high school who had made the trek to upstate New York and returned to tell what she remembered of the experience.
I thought she was the luckiest person on earth. And I replayed her scenarios in my mind while listening to the three-record album over and over, anywhere I could. I had it memorized, down to the stage directions and the static on the mikes when an artist got too near.
My favorite? Richie Havens. Sure, Hendrix blew everyone’s socks off with his rendition of
