Where Is The Love For RICHARD AND MIMI FARINA?

omg mimi is so fine.

would smash.

I've slept on these records for too long, for no good reason. Now for the past few days, I've been listening to them on and off. I've completely fallen in love with Mimi and Richard. At first I thought 'Reflections in a Crystal Wind' was the best folk rock record , but then I listened to 'Celebrations For A Grey Day' and now I can't decide. Has anyone heard Dick Fariña and Eric Von Schmidt? There is a romance I fall into while listening to these records, like I get to participate in their love of each other and their love of music. Also the list on the back of the first record of what went into making it is classic!

"In whole or borrowed part then, these are songs we made up from an android synthesis of one-a-day vitamins, Tropicana orange juice, fresh country eggs, Kraft homogenized cheese, tetra-paks of fortified milk, Cheerios with sun-ripened bananas, Corn-flake-breaded chicken, hot-fudge sundaes, Dairy-Queen root-beer floats, cheeseburgers, hybrid cream-style corn, riboflavin extract, brewer's yeast, crunchy peanut butter, tuna-fish casseroles, pancakes and imitation maple syrup, chuck steaks, occasional Maine lobster, social-tea biscuits, defatted wheat germ, Kellogg's Concentrate, chopped string-beans, Wonder bread, Bosco, Bird's Eye frozen peas, shredded spinach, french-fried onion rings, escarole salads, lentil stews, sundry fowl innards, pecan-sandies, Almond Joys, aureomycin, penicillin, anti-tetanus, toxoid, smallopx vaccine, alka-seltzer, Empirin, Vick's Vapo-rub, Arrid with chlorophyl, Super-Anahist nose spray, Dristan decongestant, John Jameson's, Tullamore Dew, Cutty Shark, occasional Beefeater, Schweppes quinine water, dasrk Bacardi, vin ordinaire, Harvey's Dry Sherry, assorted Algerian herbs for the head, and what you might call general exercise."

And I'd like to type out the back of 'Reflections of a Crystal Wind' where he thanks everyone, but let me have a few more glasses of wine

I bought these records for Bruce Langhorne.

Not, as in, I purchased these records as a gift for Bruce Langhorne, but, you know, bought them because he plays on 'em. Or at least the second one, right? Must revisit.

RIP Bruce Langhorne.

THer box set is pretty great. Is it still available? Think it was even mid price type cheap when I bought it.

so beautiful

This is so great...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0e3AZzKt4A

(background: https://www.goldminemag.com/columns/richard-and-mimi-farina-1965-radio-broadcast-goes-online )

Nice, thanks! Thought this revive would be about recent documentary on Mimi’s sister.

Which Mimi features in of course.

Much younger than he was, Mimi may have merely been a stepping stone in his anticipated career that ended so abruptly on a Carmel, CA, road a year later

Fatal motorcycle accident is in the doc as well. My understanding is that Mimi never really got over it.

Whatever that means of course.

What with the droning, the faux-polite hipster drawl and the obligatory Celtic content it has a bit of a VU vibe to it.