Charismatic and bohemian, Richard Farina gravitated to the 1960s New York folk scene after dropping out of Cornell University after being suspended for organizing student demonstrations.
A poet, activist, autoharp player and political songwriter, he briefly married Carolyn Hester, befriended Bob Dylan and ended up marrying Joan Baez’s younger sister Mimi and formed a folk duo with her. Built around Farina’s melancholy songs, this — the first of only two LPs together — is a thing of great beauty.
Everyone thought they were destined to be a major force but in April 1966, shortly after the publication of Farina’s novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, he was killed in a motorbike crash on Mimi’s 21st birthday.
Here we have two songs from the album:
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