#richard fariña

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joan Baez “Sweet Sir Galahad” One Day At A Time, January 22, 1970.

[folk-enjoyer]

Song of the day

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"The Falcon" Mimi & Richard Fariña, 1965

originally based on a traditional English folk song "The Cuckoo Bird", first published between 1780-1812 in London,

later captured by alan lomax in 1942

Mimi & Richard changed the traditional folk song to a hauntingly beautiful anti-war song, describing the predatory nature of fascism and the falcons longing for peace and whimsy.

[sivavakkiyar]

[yt]

[archiveovercast]

Good morning, teaspoon.

[bea-lele-carmen]

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña, 1966. An autobiographical novel by Richard Fariña about the early sixties and the transition from beatniks to hippies. Depicts a countercultural lifestyle that was filled with experimentation, non-conformity, and a rejection of societal norms, inspiring a sense of freedom and individuality among the hippie movement. The book also tackled themes of youth rebellion, education, and the search for meaning and purpose, resonating with many members of the hippie generation.[9]

[chetbakerintoyko]

Richard Fariña - Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1966)

[nochoirliketheirsong]

Song #79

Time to share this song again! I posted it when I started this blog, because it's where the title comes from, but not as the 'song of the day' yet. It still lives rent free in my head at least once a week, even when I don't listen to it.

"Come wander quietly and listen to the wind

Come near and listen to the sky

Come walking high above the rolling of the sea

And watch the swallows as they fly

There is no sorrow like the murmur of their wings

There is no choir like their song

There is no power like the freedom of their flight

While the swallows roam alone"

[ringneckedpheasant]

and beat your wild and roving wings, and toss your raven head, and sing a mad and joyous song, and leave me with the dead.

[teddypng]

Mimi & Richard Fariña, 1960s

[wokeupwiththissong]

The Falcon - Richard and Mimi Fariña

[julio-viernes]

Si los "ultra cool" del beat británico fueron The Walker Brothers a pesar de ser norteamericanos, los del folk rock fueron los primeros Fairport Convention con Judy Dyble e Iain Matthews como pareja de cantantes principales.

En su versión de "Reno, Nevada" de Mimi and Richard Fariña comienzan cantando los dos, Matthews de brazos cruzados sin inmutarse. Al llegar el solo de guitarra de Richard Thompson en la parte jazzy, ambos se quitan de en medio, Dyble se sienta y mira a cámara sin parpadear. Matthews está sentado en otro lado con la cabeza agachada. Acabada la parte de improvisación, ambos se incorporan y terminan la canción como si nada.

La versión de los Fairport no vio la luz hasta 20 años más tarde de su grabación en el LP "Heyday: the BBC Radio Sessions 1968–69".

[haveyouheardthisband]

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Mimi Fariña (1945-2001) solo; collaborated with Richard Fariña Songs: "A Swallow Song," "Great White Horse" Propaganda: see visual

Kiki Dee (1947-) solo Songs: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," "I've Got the Music In Me" Propaganda: see visual

Visual Propaganda for Mimi Fariña:

Visual Propaganda for Kiki Dee:

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Richard and Mimi Fariña - WTBS-FM, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 1965

Amidst the ancient folk songs that Fairport Convention played at Royal Festival Hall in September of 1969, there was an outlier — Sandy Denny's stark version of "The Quiet Joys Of Brotherhood," which set a Richard Fariña poem to the tune of "My Lagan Love." The band would record (and discard) a great version of it for Liege & Lief and Sandy would return to it on her Sandy LP in 1972. Richard and Mimi were big influences on Fairport — they also tackled "Reno, Nevada," and Richard Thompson would later recall a late 1960s encounter Fariña's dulcimer — "a holy object."

So! Let's check out a nice rarity from Richard & Mimi themselves — this excellent radio broadcast from the early folk rock daze. Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home had just been released, and the duo are already referencing "Maggie's Farm" here, as they run through some of their best tunes (and one of their worst —  "A Chastity Belt" has always struck me as insufferably lame).

The DJ is Ed Freeman who would later go onto fame (infamy, maybe?) as the producer/arranger of "American Pie," and, interestingly, the electric guitarist is Barry Tashian of Barry & the Remains, of "Don't Look Back" fame. A lot of cool confluences, which is kinda what Richard Fariña was all about before his untimely death in 1966 ... after all, who else could provide a direct connection between Dylan and Thomas Pynchon?

[sivavakkiyar]

hi, so i recently read the hanging on union square, i found out about it from one of your posts a while ago, and i really enjoyed it, and i was wondering if you had any recommendations for books in the same vein?

Hey that’s awesome!! Sorry for the late reply, my inbox is kind of bogged. I’m really happy to hear someone did it, I loved that book, translating it into Tamil is a pet project of mine.

It *is* a relatively unique book, in that I associate it with some other things but I can’t say for 100% whether or not you’d read them and they’d scratch exactly. If you’re looking for another older Asian American classic, Eat A Bowl of Tea is also great but very different.

If you’re talking the kind of stylistic innovation + the politics approached from a satirical lens, I think there’s almost a kind of weird tradition in the US Left of those things popping up—-I think of Nathaneal West’s novels (there’s four, all short), Darius James’ Negrophobia (which is a lot)….maybe Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me.