Richard & Mimi Fariña

Richard Fariña was a observed counterculture author and folksinger in the first ’60s. Married for a while to folksinger Carolyn Hester, he was an early on seductive of Bob Dylan, and actually documented a collectable record with Dylan (playing beneath the pseudonym Blind Guy Grunt) and Ric Von Schmidt in 1963. After marrying Joan Baez’s sister, Mimi, he produced a folk-rock duo who released two acclaimed albums in the middle-’60s. Unlike folk-rock figureheads just like the Byrds, the Fariñas had been far more solidly rooted in folk than rock and roll. Their recordings successfully flavored their materials (mostly compiled by Fariña) with jangling electrical guitars and a tempo section, ably helped by such program players as guitarist Bruce Langhorne (who also performed on Dylan’s initial electric powered recordings), bassist Felix Pappalardi, and harmonica participant John Hammond. The Fariñas themselves also performed electric guitar, autoharp, and dulcimer. Least effective with blues, they documented some effective Appalachian-flavored materials, and several exceptional real mid-tempo folk-rockers and ballads. Their finest songs effectively well balanced world-wise, sardonic observations with good-natured, melodic optimism. The Fariñas’ appealing career finished prematurely using the loss of life of Richard Fariña within a motorbike incident on his birthday in 1966. His book from the same yr, Been Down SUCH A LONG TIME It APPEARS LIKE up if you ask me, became a cult preferred. Since Richard Fariña’s loss of life, Mimi Fariña offers sporadically documented and performed like a solo act.