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	Richard Fariña - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard George Fariña (March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966) was an American writer and folksinger.
		He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era.
		They debuted their act as "Richard and Mimi Fariña" at the Big Sur Folk Festival in 1964 and were signed to Vanguard Records.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Farina (739 words)

	Farina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Farina, colombian singer, songwriter, producer, artist and reggaetoner who participated in the show The X Factor.
		Johann Maria Farina, born in Italy 1685, died in Cologne in 1766, the creator of Eau de Cologne.
		Farina is a fictional pegasus knight from the Game Boy Advance game Fire Emblem.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farina (242 words)

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		Farina and her sister singer Joan Baez were considered folk-music royalty in the '60s.
		Farina recorded several hits as a solo artist and with husband, singer-songwriter and novelist Richard Farina, whom she married in 1963.
		Farina recorded several hits in the 1960s both as a solo artist and with her husband, Richard Farina, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1966.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001-Feminist_Issues/Mimi_Farina_Dead_of_Cancer (615 words)

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		Farina continued her career in music after her husband's death, although it was as founder of the charitable organization Bread and Roses that she found lasting rewards.
		Richard and Mimi Farina recorded two albums, "Reflections in a Crystal Wind" and "Celebration for a Grey Day," and at least one of their songs, "Pack Up Your Sorrows," was an airplay staple in the early days of underground FM radio.
		Farina is survived by her mother and father, Albert and Joan Baez, her two sisters, Joan Baez and Pauline Bryan.
	www.obitpage.com /obits/f/farina_mimi.html (869 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| Sharps & flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Her husband, Richard, fought alongside Castro, sold guns and called Thomas Pynchon a pal.
		Back then, Richard was a songwriter as well as both a novelist and former gunrunner/revolutionary.
		Richard was born in 1936 to an Irish mother and Cuban father.
	www.salon.com /ent/music/review/1999/10/13/farina/index.html (691 words)

	Richard Farina / Richard George Farina / Dick Farina
		Richard in turn was smitten with her, and pursued her relentlessly.
		Richard flirted with Mimi at this picnic, and began writing to her shortly afterwards.
		Richard had begun the novel in 1960, based largely on the experiences of his college years and his travels.
	www.richardandmimi.com /richard.html (2909 words)

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		Farina, a contemporary of Thomas Pynchon at Cornell University, has long been compared to Pynchon, Brautigan, and other writers of the 1960's.
		Farina provides a complex vision--he has written an `autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically, ' and in a framework that encompasses some uniquely American materials, ranging from folklore to the mass media.
		Richard Farina died in a motorcycle accident only two days after the publication of his first novel.
	instruct1.cit.cornell.edu /Courses/engl206/farinabio.htm (442 words)

	Mimi And Richard Farina The Complete Vanguard Recordings by Steven Stone
		Mimi and Richard Farina were essentially a pop group with strong political and cultural ties to the beat and hippie movements.
		Richard's dulcimer playing acted as the center for Mimi and Richard's distinctive sound.
		Richard and Mimi's last album, Memories, was released posthumously in 1968.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /Magazine/music/0603/farina.htm (589 words)

	Amazon.de: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me: English Books: Richard Farina,Richard Fariina,Thomas Pynchon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Farina evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age.
		Richard Farina was a consummate songerwriter, poet and hopeful novelist, until his first and only novel burst onto the scene.
		Farina was, for my money, one of the best writers of his generation, even though one novel and an out-of-print (but, if you can find it, surprisingly good) collection of short pieces isn't much to go on.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140189300 (1290 words)

	Somewhereville...The Music of Richard Ferreira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Richard won¹t disclose his source—“If I told you, then I’d have to kill you,” he jokes pristine discs are selections by Curtis Mayfield, Al Green and The Band.
		Co-produced by Richard and Grammy Award-winner Rich Adler [Neil Young, Allison Krauss, John Prine], Somewhereville brings to mind the inspired songcraft and musicianship of Van Morrison, Elvis Costello and The Band’s Richard Manuel successes are defined by their virtuosity rather than the fleeting whims of popular culture.
		Committed to his songwriting, Richard moved to Hollywood at the end of the decade and became a fixture in that town¹s burgeoning roots-rock community, eventually working as guitarist for Grammy award-winning songwriter Lucinda Williams.
	www.richardferreira.com /about.html (692 words)

	Mimi Fariña - Biography - AOL Music
		Mimi Farina, Joan Baez's younger sister, first got into performing professionally in partnership with her husband, novelist and songwriter Richard Farina, whom she married in 1963.
		(The two albums made during Richard's lifetime were reissued as a best-of two-fer.) In the late '60s, Farina, based in California, worked with a satiric improvisational acting group and began to write her own songs.
		Throughout the late '80s and '90s, Farina turned her attention back to Bread and Roses, continuing to nurture the organization until she became ill with lung cancer.
	music.aol.com /artist/mimi-farina/1974/biography (335 words)

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		Hard to say, perhaps it was because Richard Farina died tragically in 1966, just as electric rock music was beginning to take hold of the psyche of America's youth.
		As Joan Baez's sister, Mimi Farina was often underestimated as a folk-singer and political activist.
		The Farinas also performed many fascinating instrumentals during their time with Vanguard Records and incorporated some of the droning elements of Eastern music as well as old Appalachian dance tunes and spirited, jazzy improvisation.
	www.newcitychicago.com /home/daily/raw/092299_folk.html (415 words)

	Richard Farina
		Farina uses the campus more as a microcosm of the world at large.
		Farina's ear was taken not so much then by pop music as by more traditional American forms like jazz, and especially blues, both country and fl.
		For many of the characters, Farina seems to have begun with the key traits that in their Cornell originals appealed to him most--Drew Youngblood's decency, Juan Carlos Rosenbloom's manic bravado, Judy Lumpers's build--and then from these cores gone on to develop each of them more fully.
	www.pynchon.pomona.edu /uncollected/farina.html (2920 words)

	Fariña Timeline
		December - Cornell sophomore Richard Farina is nabbed by the campus cops when he grabs a cross-eyed Mary from a manger scene and tests her wings by heaving her over Triphammer Bridge into the gorge below.
		December - Farina answers final in chemical engineering class, according to Hajdu, "with a free verse poem about why he should not be studying chemical engineering." Dunno what grade he got, but the next semester he was granted entry into the creative writing program.
		Farina has a fit about Grossman's involvement, assumes Grossman, whom he considers too pushy, has ulterior motives (unlike Dick, whose motives in all things were pure).
	www.members.tripod.com /farinafiles1/timeline.htm (4177 words)

	Amazon.fr : Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Richard married the exceedingly young beauty Mimi and helmed their career, but he might have dumped her for big sister Joan, whose madcap humor and verbal wit harmonized with his--except that he ineptly killed himself on a motorcycle first.
		The music was, indeed, a sign of the times, and "the times they were a-changing." It was an unparalleled era when love, peace and individuality ruled supreme, and freedom was part of the traditional dream.
		As a fan of Dylan's (and Joan's), it was hard to bear his sudden cruelty to those who loved him, but it was heartening to see his reinvention as a family man, free of most of his chains (Albert Grossman's drug supplies and incessant touring that was ready to kill Bob).
	www.amazon.fr /Positively-4th-Street-Farina-Richard/dp/086547642X (1471 words)

	Beat Generation Bookstore 3
		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.
		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.
		The album stands as a final monument to Richard Farina's talent and a sad reminder of what was lost when Farina died in a motorcycle crash in 1966.
	60sfurther.com /Books-Beat3.htm (6498 words)

	Richard Fariña : Memories - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		The 12 songs include a few studio outtakes, a few solo turns by Mimi on compositions written by Richard but incompletely recorded at the time of his death, a couple performances from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, and a couple of Joan Baez tracks from sessions for an aborted album Richard was producing with her.
		These leftovers are generally up to the standard of the two "real" albums, especially "The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood" (covered by Fairport Convention) and "Morgan the Pirate" (a farewell to Bob Dylan, according to the sketchy liner notes).
		The two cuts by Baez (which Richard wrote or co-wrote), especially the compellingly melancholy "All The World Has Gone By," are excellent, leading one to wonder if the projected album they came from would have been one of Baez's best if it had been completed.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,84312,00.html (261 words)

	Richard Fariña
		April 1966 verstorbene Richard Fariña, dem Gravity’s Rainbow gewidmet ist, war der Autor eines Romans, dessen wunderschöner Titel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me zugleich eine gelungene binäre Opposition enthält (worauf Pynchon mittelbar verweist) und der zudem auf einen Blues-Song Bezug nimmt.
		In Douglas Fowlers Companion zu Thomas Pynchons Gravity’s Rainbow ist Richard Fariña dreimal angemerkt (28, 140, 229).
		Farinas Roman wurde 1971 von Jeff Young verfilmt.
	www.ottosell.de /pynchon/farina.htm (3272 words)

	Richard and Mimi Farina Appreciation
		Richard and Mimi must have been deeply in love.
		Richard, was a word man. He wrote an interesting book, "Been down so long, looks like up to me".
		I think this song is one of the simplest and prettiest of their efforts and would have the broadest appeal.
	www.hlmusic.com /RichardMimiFarina.htm (634 words)

	Psychedelic 60s: 1967
		Richard Brautigan died in 1984, an apparent suicide.
		Farina was of Irish and Cuban heritage; in the fifties he fought both with the Irish Republican Army in Ireland and Fidel Castro in the mountains of Cuba.
		Pynchon writes of the novel, "It's been a while since I've read anything quite so groovy, quite such a joy from beginning to end." Richard Farina died at the age of thirty in a motorcycle accident on his way to a publication party for this book.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/sixties/1967.html (606 words)

	Amazon.ca: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me: Books: Richard Farina,Pynchon Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I'm quite sad that Farina died so young, and I wish he had lived long enough to develop his writing (and music), but I have to say that based on this, I can't find much to admire.
		It's a credit to Farina that he can make the reader even sympathize a little bit with a character as obtuse as Gnossus, who tends to act only for himself, treat other characters in a random fashion and spend more time as a bystander than a participant.
		I wonder if Farina hadn't also been a recording artist, Mimi Farina's husband, and Joan Baez's brother-in-law, if this book would even be in print.
	www.amazon.ca /Been-Down-Long-Looks-Like/dp/0140189300 (1658 words)

	Richard Fariña : Pack up Your Sorrows: Best of Vanguard Years - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		When Vanguard Records issued its double album The Best of Mimi & Richard Fariña in 1971, five years after the motorcycle crash that claimed Richard Fariña's life, the label simply repackaged the duo's two regular album releases, Celebrations for a Grey Day (1965) and Reflections in a Crystal Wind (1966).
		But Fariña and his wife Mimi gave his words a sweet-and-sour harmony style, and their most distinctive music was made when they duetted on autoharp and dulcimer, as on the instrumentals that make up a good part of the song list.
		Richard Fariña's early death robbed the music world of an important singer/songwriter (not to mention robbing literature of a promising novelist), but the work he left behind ranks with the best folk-rock of the 1960s.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,877569,00.html (291 words)

	Amazon.com: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Twentieth-Century Classics): Books: Richard Farina,Thomas Pynchon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Farina suffers from the latter and it is readily apparent in Been Down.
		It's a shame that Richard Farina dies so young, because at times you can see the talent peeping out of this novel.
		Since it was written in the '50s, Gnossos' lack of charm or even the most basic social skills may be seen by those who grew up in that repressed era as signs of having a free spirit, or of being a rebel.
	www.amazon.com /Down-Looks-Like-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140189300 (2607 words)

	village voice > books > Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and ...
		One of the signal perversities of celebrity culture is the way it induces ordinary Janes and Joes to identify with the love lives of men and women who by the nature of their calling are no good at loving.
		Farrar, Straus would be overjoyed to rope in half the college students who made the pilgrimage to Newport in the '60s, and knows that even back then this literate, middle-class target audience had a weakness for the past, the more romantic the better.
		Richard was a charming rogue, and rogues stray; Hajdu faithfully tracks his flirtations with his sister-in-law, which given Joan's self-centeredness could conceivably have gotten very ugly.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0125,christgau2,25671,10.html (1231 words)

	Biography of the 1960s - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez and Richard Farina
		That's the way he grew up." Over the course of his childhood, Richard was diagnosed with asthma and allergies to numerous foods, including eggs, mustard, garlic, and brussels sprouts.
		Around the age of 10, Richard invented his own comic-strip characters and drew their adventures on sheets of construction paper he taped all over the walls of his room.
		His father went into Richard's room to fetch him for dinner and found his son lying on his back on the floor, gazing at his creations.
	www.scripter.net /backpages/positively.htm (647 words)

	Direct Textbooks Price Comparison for ISBN 086547642X: Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Joan Baez, her sister Mimi Farina, Mimi's husband, Richard (Remember: "Been Down So Long It's Beginning To Look Like Up To Me?") and Bob Dylan (nee Zimmerman)were more than 'folk singers.' Dylan's protestations to the contrary, they cut a path through and into the fibre of the American consciousness in the early 1960's.
		You don't have to be a rabid fan of folk music to enjoy David Hajdu's remarkable narrative of Dylan, Richard Farina, and the Baez sisters set against the rich tapestry of the American folk revival of the early Sixties.
		Mimi Farina seems to have an existence that only serves for her to be ripped off by Farina, an opportunist user of women, someone who appears to be a semi-child molester.
	www.directtextbook.com /price.php?q=086547642X&p=prices&shippingtime=5 (1570 words)

	Bookreporter.com - POSITIVELY 4TH STREET by David Hajdu
		Listen to a coffeehouse folkster reminisce and you come away with an impression of Greenwich Village as some far off, magical land populated by hundreds of rare geniuses whose every artistic creation was pregnant with social import.
		The problem with folk music, as he saw it, "was that it needed a beat." Mimi Baez, still in high school, remained on the folk movement's periphery until just before her 18th birthday when she adopted a second last name, Fariña.
		His first major contribution to the making of the folk counterculture, as clearly drawn and compellingly argued by Hajdu, implicates Fariña as the force behind Dylan's sudden interest in Joan Baez (he was from the Guthrie camp, she from the Seeger.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0374281998.asp (895 words)

	LitKicks: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Farina’s prose rolls and jerks from word to word, staggering at times like the town drunkard and hovering at times like an angel in heaven.
		This is what some may consider the downfall of his writing, I must admit that it took me several readings to understand it fully but after I did I appreciated it even more.
		When I hear of influential authors of the epoch coined “the Beat Generation” [Kerouac, Ginsberg, etc.] I wonder why Farina is not on the top of the list.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=RichardFarina (548 words)

	Positively 4th Street by David Hajdu \| PopMatters Book Review
		If Richard Fariña had been a rock star he would be widely remembered.
		Yet his insightful account of a fascinating period in the development of the American psyche confirms him as a commentator who can set personal details against the wider social drama of a nation squirming from the triple assault of a Civil Rightscampaign, a South-East Asian war, and the emergence of concerted youth protest.
		If Richard Fariña had been a film star he would still be celebrated now, maybe not a James Dean but perhaps a Montgomery Clift or a John Garfield.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/p/positively-4th-street.shtml (1280 words)

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