The veteran Havens knocked around with the young Bob Dylan in Greenwich Village, was the opening act at the original Woodstock festival in 1969, and has ploughed his peace-and-good-vibes furrow ever since.

Beaded, balding and bearded, Havens beams out from the disc's back cover like a man steeped in ginseng and brotherly love, the very embodiment of the messages in his songs. "The one thing God shall not forgive / Is a babe that's never / Seen a flower grow", he laments in Red Flowers, while Pulling up the Stone contains the Bob Marley-ish message "To stop the slavery we all feel / All of us here / Can change right now".

Havens also does a slow, mesmerising version of Joni Mitchell's Woodstock, and his remake of Dylan's All Along the Watchtower is powered by Havens' trademark high-speed guitar strumming. It's music to grow herbs by.