With Otis Plum, a Three-man Group from Chicago.

Local/house band Crockett also remembers being an opening act. Freelance reviewer Ann Payson described Havens as “an incredibly warm and charismatic performer” at the two sellout shows. His first set included several songs from his first album, such as “High Flying Bird,” “Just Like a Woman,” “Fire and Rain.” When he “ripped into” the show-stopping “Freedom,” Payson noted, “we saw the other side of Havens, his whole body moving, dancing in a frenzy across the stage and finally breaking two guitar strings as he pounded them in an amazingly sustained and powerful finale.”