NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Richie Havens on 17 June 2024. Richie Havens has been played on NTS over 80 times, featured on 68 episodes and was first played on 7 September 2013.

Richard P. "Richie" Havens (born January 21, 1941; died April 22, 2013) was an American folk singer and guitarist. He is best remembered for his intense, rhythmic guitar style (often in open tunings), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

Born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Havens moved to Greenwich Village in 1961 in time to get in on…