RICHIE HAVENS Dreaming As One: The A&M Years Hip-O CD B0002495-02

Product description

Limited numbered edition
Tracks:
1. I'm Not In Love
2. We Can't Hide Anymore
3. Dreaming As One
4. You Can Close Your Eyes
5. I Was Educated By Myself
6. Daughter Of The Night
7. If Not For You
8. Do It Again
9. Wild Night
10. Long Train Running
11. Live It Up (One Time)
12. Shadows Of The Past
13. I Don't Complain
14. Touch The Sky
15. Billy John
16. We All Wanna Boogie
17. Avalon
18. Aviation Man
19. Nobody Left To Clown
20. The End
21. I'm Not In Love (Single)

Richie Havens' first three albums for the Verve-Forecast label established him as a major artist, and his history-making appearance opening the 1969 Woodstock Festival helped to make him a household name. By 1970, Havens had achieved sufficient success to launch his own Stormy Forest label, distributed by Verve's parent company, MGM. Havens released seven albums on Stormy Forest, until MGM's sale to PolyGram led to a buyout of Havens' label deal. Havens then signed to A&M, whose co-founder Jerry Moss had long expressed interest in working with him.

The changes that had occurred in the popular-music landscape in the decade since Havens began recording were reflected in the two albums Havens made for A&M, 1976's The End Of The Beginning and 1977's Mirage. Where Havens' prior albums had been built around the spare rhythmic spontaneity of his voice and guitar, his A&M releases recast Havens in a more explicitly contemporary pop/R&B mode. The artist rose to the occasion, delivering vocal performances whose warmth and honesty balanced the smoothly accessible arrangements. Both of these albums, along with the edited single cover version of 10cc's mega-hit, "I'm Not In Love," are available now for the first time on compact disc, nearly three decades after their initial release.

record store