{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox album | name = Something Else Again | type = studio | artist = Richie Havens | cover = Something Else Again Havens.jpg | alt = | released = January 1968 | recorded = September 8 & 20, 1967 | venue = | studio = | genre = Folk, jazz, singer-songwriter | length = 43:34 | label = Verve | producer = John Court | prev_title = Mixed Bag | prev_year = 1966 | next_title = Richard P. Havens, 1983 | next_year = 1969 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=AM>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r62112/review|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref> | rev2 = ''Rolling Stone'' |rev2score = (Favorable)<ref>''Rolling Stone''. Vol 1. No. 4, January 20, 1968, p. 20</ref> }}
'''''Something Else Again''''' is the second studio album by American folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens, released in January 1968.<ref name=AM/> The track "Run, Shaker Life" was based on a Shaker dance song by elder Issachar Bates<ref>[https://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/IssacharBatesShakerLife.htm Song Comparison: "Come Life, Shaker Life" and "Run, Shaker Life"]. ''AmericanMusicPreservation.com''. Retrieved April 26, 2013.</ref> and reworked from Havens' old band, the Last Men, who reunited for this recording.<ref>"Havens' New Album". ''Rolling Stone''. Vol. 1 No. 2, November 23, 1967.</ref> "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" was later recorded by Canadian jazz-rock band Lighthouse on its first album in 1969 and reworked by Yes on its second album, ''Time and a Word''.
== Track listing == # "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" (Richie Havens) – 2:58 # "Inside of Him" (Havens) – 4:26 # "The Klan" ("Alan Grey, David Grey," pseudonyms for Alan Arkin and David I. Arkin) – 4:31 # "Sugarplums" – 2:54 # "Don't Listen to Me" (Havens) – 4:27 # "From the Prison" (Jerry Merrick) – 3:37 # "Maggie's Farm" (Bob Dylan) – 4:38 # "Something Else Again" – 7:30 # "New City" (Havens, John Court) – 2:47 # "Run, Shaker Life" (Havens, Joe Price, Mark Roth) – 5:46
==Personnel== * Richie Havens – vocals, guitar, sitar, tamboura *Warren Bernhardt – organ, piano, clavinet *Denny Gerrard – bass on "Run, Shaker Life" *Don Payne – bass *Adrian Guillery – guitar *Paul "Dino" Williams – guitar, chant on "Run, Shaker Life" *Daniel Ben Zebulon – conga, drums, chant on "Run, Shaker Life" *Eddie Gómez – double bass *Donald MacDonald – drums *Skip Prokop – drums on "Run, Shaker Life" *Jeremy Steig – flute *John Blair – violin on "Inside of Him" ;Technical *Val Valentin – director of engineering *Jerry Schoenbaum – production supervision
== Charts == {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! year !! chart !! peak |- | 1968 || ''Billboard'' Pop Albums || 184 |}
== References == {{Reflist}} {{Richie Havens}}
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Category:1968 albums Category:Richie Havens albums Category:Verve Records albums