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On the passing of Richie Havens

(January 21, 1941 – April 22, 2013)

Where would we be without music? No matter what goes on in life, we are wedded to the music of our day, themusic of our time. When I left for a six month stint away from my mother and father as a fourteen year old, it was music that consoled me. The Beatles’, “Strawberry Fields” and Toussaint McCall’s “Nothing Takes the Place of You” comes to mind. Then when I we…

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