802 Richard Fariña (1937-1966) and Mimi Baez Fariña (1945-2001) “Reno Nevada” and “Mainline Prosperity Blues” 1965

“Richard Fariña's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1966) provides an intriguing example for anyone who followed the rise of the counterculture from the mid-1950s. Until his death—motorcycle accident on the night of his first and only novel’s publication party, just short of his thirtieth birthday—he seemed to be at the center of what was happening” (Robert Murray Davis, World Literature Today, May-June 2006).

Nancy Carlen, producer of the Big Sur Festival said of Mimi, younger sister of Joan Baez, and former ad man Richard Fariña, “Dick and Mimi were a really unusual act. Most people were doing a traditional thing or a blues thing or a protest thing. They were combining folk music with Eastern music and poetry and rock and roll. They were completely original and creative” (David Hajdu, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña, 2001).

Richard and Mimi Fariña “Reno Nevada”

Richard and Mimi Fariña “Mainline Prosperity Blues”