Rick Dee Performing Richie Havens, 'Freedom'

Описание: Rick Dee of the Houston/Pasadena rock band 'Ganesha'.

His solo performance was in the upper room of Capone's Houston Bar and Oven off 59 and Kirby, in Houston, Texas.

Havens wasn't supposed to be the first act to open the festival; that slot originally was intended for the band Sweetwater, but that band wound up being stuck in traffic. Backstage, co-organizer Michael Lang approached Havens and practically begged him to go on instead. "It had to be Richie – I knew he could handle it," Lang later wrote.

After performing a half-dozen songs, Havens ran out of material – until, he later said, he remembered "that word I kept hearing while I looked over the crowd in my first moments onstage. The word was: freedom." Havens began chanting that word over and over, backed by his second guitarist and conga player, and eventually segued into the gospel song "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," which he had heard in church as a child. The combined, surging medley wasn't just a crowd-pleaser; it later became a highlight of Woodstock. . . "

Excerpt from a Rolling Stone article celebrating the life of Richie Havens, by David Browne, Published April 22, 2013.

This particular gathering was the kick-off of the SOUPer Houston event. Ganesha's album 'Downer' released in 2015 under the label Visionary Noise.

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