Richard & Mimi Farina

Richard and Mimi Farina were an incredibly talented duo who relied as heavily on Mimi's fluid guitar as on the brilliance of Richard's poetics. This comp gathers just about everything they did in their tragically short career. Songs like "Reno Nevada," "Pack Up Your Sorrows" and "House Un-American Blues Activity Dream" helped invent folk-rock.

At around the same time Dylan went electric, this fascinating duo went eclectic --
punctuating the folk scene of the mid-Sixties with a passel of albums that (to borrow a
phrase) thought globally and acted locally. This three-disc compilation, which is peppered
with previously unreleased tracks (including the entire set the couple played at the 1965
Newport Folk Festival), showcases Richard's restless stylistic globetrotting -- fro... More >