I'm sorry to hear this. I saw him play once in an Ann Arbor club. He was kind enough to answer a few questions after the show. He had hands like catcher's mitts. His little finger was longer than my middle finger. Really a great guitarist and interpreter.
Richie Havens Dies

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NEW YORK — Richie Havens, the folk singer and guitarist who was the first performer at Woodstock, died Monday, his family said. He was 72.

Havens died of a heart attack, the family said it a statement. Further details on his death were not immediately disclosed...

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.