{{About|the album by Richie Havens|the common term|mixed bag|the video game company|MixedBag|the Troggs album|Mixed Bag (The Troggs album)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} <!-- Page requested at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable albums --> {{Infobox album | name = Mixed Bag | type = studio | artist = Richie Havens | cover = Havens-Mixed_Bag.jpg | alt = | released = Late 1966 | recorded = July 7, September 12 & 20, 1966 | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = 37:54 | label = Verve | producer = John Court | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Something Else Again | next_year = 1968 }} {{Album reviews |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name = "AMG">Jim Newsome, [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r40081|pure_url=yes}} "Mixed Bag: Review"], AllMusic</ref> |rev4 = ''MusicHound Folk'' |rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Walters |editor1-first=Neal |editor2-last=Mansfield |editor2-first=Brian |title=MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide |date=1998 |publisher=Visible Ink |location=Detroit |page=351 |ol=64882M }}</ref> |rev5 = ''Rolling Stone'' |rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{CN|date=December 2023}} |rev3 = ''The Great Rock Discography'' |rev3score = 8/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Strong |first1=Martin C. |title=The Great Rock Discography |date=2004 |publisher=Canongate |location=New York |page=675 |ol=18807297M |edition=7th}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> }} '''''Mixed Bag''''' is the debut studio album by Richie Havens, released in 1966. Although it was Havens' first album release, Douglas Records later issued two unauthorized albums of material that had been recorded prior to the ''Mixed Bag'' recording sessions—''Electric Havens'' (1968) and ''Richie Havens' Record'' (1969). ''Mixed Bag'' was released after Havens signed on with manager Albert Grossman and was released on Verve Folkways, a new folk music imprint of Verve Records.<ref name = "DL">Ellen Geisel, "Richie Havens: Seeker of Change", ''Dirty Linen'', '''65''', August–September 1968, p. 44-47</ref>
''Mixed Bag'' is frequently cited as the singer's best work,<ref name ="AMG"/> and was his first album to appear on ''Billboard's'' charts (appearing on both the jazz and pop charts). The recording was the first to introduce a wider audience to Havens's rich baritone vocals and the full-sound of Havens's distinct guitar style (thumb-chorded and played in open E tuning).<ref name = "AMG"/> ''Electric Havens'' and ''Mixed Bag'' were two of the records reported among the personal collection of Havens' one-time Greenwich Village buddy, Jimi Hendrix.<ref name = "GP">James Rotondi, "Listening Experience: Jimi Hendrix' Personal Record Collection", ''Guitar Player'', '''30:4''', April 1996, p. 37-42</ref>
== Track listing ==
'''Side one''' # "High Flyin' Bird" (Billy Edd Wheeler) – 3:35 # "I Can't Make It Anymore" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 2:48 # "Morning, Morning" (Tuli Kupferberg) – 2:17 # "Adam" (Havens) – 3:34 # "Follow" (Jerry Merrick) – 6:22
'''Side two''' # "Three Day Eternity" (Havens) – 2:15 # "Sandy" (Jean Pierre Cousineau) – 3:12 # "Handsome Johnny" (Louis Gossett Jr., Havens) – 3:53 # "San Francisco Bay Blues" (Jesse Fuller) – 2:30 # "Just Like a Woman" (Bob Dylan) – 4:46 # "Eleanor Rigby" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:42
==Personnel== * Richie Havens – guitar, sitar, vocals * Harvey Brooks – bass * Paul Harris – organ, piano, keyboards * Bill LaVorgna – drums * Howard Collins – guitar * Joe Price – tabla on "Adam" * Paul "Dino" Williams – acoustic guitar on "Follow" '''Technical personnel''' * Cover photo – Barry Feinstein * Director of engineering – Val Valentin * Produced by Groscourt Productions, Inc. * Production Supervisor – Jerry Schoenbaum * Arranged by Bruce Langhorne for "I Can't Make It Anymore" * Arranged by Felix Pappalardi for "Morning, Morning" * Mastered for Compact Disc by Dennis M. Drake at PolyGram Studios
== Releases == The album was initially released on vinyl in 1966 on Verve Folkways, a newly formed folk section at the Verve division of MGM Records.<ref name = "AMG"/> It was re-released as a CD in 1993 on PolyGram Records. In 2004, ''Mixed Bag'' was combined with two other Havens albums on a double CD titled ''Flyin' Bird: The Verve Forecast Years'', a limited-edition release of 3,000 individually numbered copies.<ref name = "CD2"/><ref name = "BM">Brian Mathieson, Richie Havens Recordings([http://www.mathie.demon.co.uk/rh/records.html link])</ref>
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! year !! format !! label !! catalog # |- | 1966 || LP || Verve Folkways || FTS-3006 |- | 1967 || LP || Verve/PolyGram|| 2317 002 |- | 1967 || || Polydor/PolyGram || 835 210 |- | 1970 || LP || MGM || SE 4698 |- | || CD || Verve/PolyGram || 835 210 |- | 1993 || CD || Verve/PolyGram || |- | 2004 || 2CD || Verve/Hip-O Select/Universal ||<ref name = "CD2">This is the double CD release, ''High Flyin' Bird: The Verve Forecast Years'' (Hip-O Select/Universal), which combines ''Mixed Bag'' with ''Something Else Again'' and ''Richard P. Havens, 1983''. The release was limited to 3,000 individually numbered copies ([http://www.hip-oselect.com/scr.public.product.asp?product_id=b1c00874-ed7b-83be-08b3-a55c2a19c42c link] at Hip-oselect.com).</ref> |}
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