The Complete Vanguard Recordings

Mimi & Richard Fari?a - The Complete Vanguard Recordings

The Complete Vanguard Recordings
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Artist: Mimi & Richard Fari?a
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-11-13
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Dandelion River Run
  2. Pack up Your Sorrows
  3. Tommy Makem Fantasy
  4. Michael, Andrew and James
  5. Dog Blue
  6. V. - Bruce Langhorne
  7. One-Way Ticket
  8. Hamish
  9. Another Country
  10. Tuileries
  11. Falcon
  12. Reno Nevada
  13. Celebration for a Grey Day
Music CD 2
  1. Reflections in a Crystal Wind
  2. Bold Marauder
  3. Dopico
  4. Swallow Song
  5. Chrysanthemum
  6. Sell-Out Agitation Waltz
  7. Hard-Long Loser
  8. Mainline Prosperity Blues
  9. Allen's Interlude
  10. House un-American Blues Activity Dream
  11. Raven Girl
  12. Miles
  13. Children of Darkness
Music CD 3
  1. Quiet Joys of Brotherhood
  2. Joy 'Round My Brain
  3. Lemonade Lady
  4. Downtown [Instrumental]
  5. Almond Joy
  6. Blood Red Roses
  7. Morgan the Pirate - Richard & Mimi Fari?a, Grady Martin
  8. Swallow Song - Joan Baez, Richard & Mimi Fari?a
  9. All the World Has Gone By - Joan Baez, , Richard Fari?a
  10. Pack up Your Sorrows - Richard Fari?a, Pauline Marden
  11. Leaving California (One Way Ticket)
  12. Sell-Out Agitation Waltz
  13. Pack up Your Sorrows - Richard & Mimi Fari?a, Peter Yarrow
  14. House un-American Blues Activity Dream
  15. Bold Marauder
  16. Hard-Lovin' Loser
  17. Dopico
  18. Celebration for a Grey Day
  19. Shady Grove - Richard & Mimi Fari?a, Jean Ritchie

Music reviews of The Complete Vanguard Recordings

Music Review: In Memory of Mimi and Richard
Rating: 5 Stars

For anyone with an interest in the music of the mid-60's, Mimi and Richard Farina are a must buy. Poised at the end of folk music's massive popularity, it is a beautiful conbination of both acoustic and electric influences. Richard died tragically shortly after their second album. The first two disc of this collection contain those two masterful efforts, "Celebrations For A Grey Day" and "Reflections In A Crystal Wind".

For those of you unfamiliar with the duo, Mimi is the younger sister of Joan Beaz. Richard was a true rennasunce man: poet, author, songwriter, musician. He died at the brink of what I believe would have been superstardom. His poetry weaves his songs into spellbinding stories of love, adventure and loss. The music is truly haunting. It will rattle around your brain long after you listen to it.

The music is also full of sadness. For anyone who knows the story of Richard Farina you are stick with the question, what would this world have been like if he had lived?

I also stongely recommend the book "Positively 4th Street" by David Hajdu that tells the fascinating story of Richard and Mimi along with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. Also available is Richard's first and only book, "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me". It had just been published at the time of his death.

Description of The Complete Vanguard Recordings

Richard Farina was better known as a novelist (he wrote Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me), while his wife Mimi was best known as the younger sister of Joan Baez. On the two albums they cut together (plus the outtakes released after Richard's death in a 1966 motorcycle accident), their musical progression captured the tenor of the times--a progression from folk traditionalism to topical social comment to playful surrealism. This three-disc set presents the entirety of the duo's studio output, plus a nine-song performance from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival (issued here in its entirety for the first time). Richard's mountain dulcimer spurred a revival of interest in the instrument, and his "Pack Up Your Sorrows" established itself as a folk standard of the era, but guitarist Mimi (who died of cancer in 2001) was plainly a better singer and more proficient musician than the husband to whom she deferred. --Don McLeese

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