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Music : Pack Up Your Sorrow: Best Of The Vanguard Years
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Pack Up Your Sorrow: Best Of The Vanguard Years by: Mimi & Richard Farina |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0015707953825 Label: Vanguard Records Manufacturer: Vanguard Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Vanguard Records Release Date: September 28, 1999 Studio: Vanguard Records Sales Rank: 198172 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: One who listens to the music of Richard and Mimi Farina also hears legend and tragedy chiming out like the Autoharp and dulcimer dominating their sound. By the time of the motorcycle accident which took his life at age 30, Richard Farina had run guns for the IRA, participated in the Cuban Revolution, bummed about Greenwich Village coffeehouses, recorded with Bob Dylan, appeared at Newport Folk Festivals, befriended Thomas Pynchon, and, under the influence of Pynchon and Jack Kerouac, wrote a frenetic novel, Been Down So Long It Looks Up To Me. His marriage to Mimi Baez (Joan's sister) brought the singer's spectral soprano and pealing autoharp to his original songs of bohemian wit and wonder--compositions such as "Pack Up Your Sorrows," "Reno Nevada," and "Another Country," all underappreciated classics of 1960s wanderlust. This set concisely distills Richard and Mimi's most consistent work for Vanguard, part neo-Appalachian folk stylization, part venturous, Byrds-like folk-rock. --Roy Kasten Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Simply intelligent and soulful folk musicAs a teenager I was transfixed by the personality and poetry of this duo. The integrity and american flavor of this husband and wife team defines the mood of the early 60's. I disagree that these tunes are dated."Swallow song" is one of my perennial favorites but all these songs hold up,in fact better than Joan Baez in my opinion,and Mimi was her sister.This is folk music with beauty depth and meaning. Rating:  - Less than giants, more than footnotesThe one problem with the Farinas' music is the inevitable high expectations that come with their close association with folk royalty, although that may well also be the reason why they got a recording contract in the first place. If you can set aside the preconceptions brought on by whom they were related to and associated with (and Richard's tall tales about himself, several of which are repeated in the liner notes to this CD - no, he didn't really run guns for the IRA or fight alongside Castro), their catalog proves to be an eclectic but nice enough one. Rumors persist that, like his friend Bob Dylan, Richard Farina decided to write and sing folk songs not for the love of the music but for the places it could take him. Even if ... Read More: Rating: - --Richard and Mimi Farina were different than other folk artists of their day. They never cut their teeth on traditional material, labor songs or murder ballads before turning to their own material. The Farinas, most notably Richard, were extremely talented individuals who gradually decided that their vision could best be expressed through folk music and darned if they didn't just go out and become the pinnacle of mid-sixties folk. There's a quality about the Farinas that suggests an extreme confidence and mastery of their own fortune that starts with their real lives and bleeds into their music. After college Richard was nothing more than a very talented writer who thought it would be hip to play music so he taught himself the dulcimer ... Read More: Rating: - A Rediscovered MasterpieceMimi and Richard Farina's work is probably the most underappreciated music to come out of the 1960's. The Best of the Vanguard years offers a sampling of the beauty, poetry and power that is their music. Though in some ways comparable to the many folk acts of the time, notably Bob Dylan, Richard and Mimi Farina's brand of folk is fresh and unique, even today. The arrangements, vocalizations and the Irish and Cuban influences blend together to make an almost hypnotic sound that is haunting, forceful and peaceful at the same time. The instrumentation is beautiful, the lyrics intelligent and witty, and the end result is a captivating collection of songs that will hopefully bring attention to these too-long-overlooked artists. Rating: - REFLECTING ON A GREAT LOSSLike Buddy Holly and Janis Joplin, Richard Farina died young and unexpectedly, and listening to this lovely music makes one sadly wonder how much he had left to contribute (the same goes for Mimi, who has almost completely retired from music since his death). Farina was a genuine folk poet with a somewhat fragile singing voice that blended beautifully with that of his wife, Mimi Farina (nee Baez). But it was the musical settings--the dulcimer and autoharp arrangements--that made the Farinas' music stand out. While most folkies of the era were content to strum an acoustic guitar, Richard and Mimi wove complex acoustic tapestries over their ethereal voices and haunting songs, taking scraps of Appalachia, the Middle East and the British Isles to ... Read More: |
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