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Mimi And Richard Farina - Pack Up Your Sorrows, Best Of The Vanguard Years (1999)

Mimi And Richard Farina - Pack Up Your Sorrows, Best Of The Vanguard Years (1999)
  • Title: Pack Up Your Sorrows, Best Of The Vanguard Years
  • Year Of Release: 1999/2006
  • Label: Vanguard Records
  • Genre: Folk Rock, Folk
  • Quality: FLAC lossless
  • Total Time: 75 min
  • Total Size: 465 MB
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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). In 1988, when it reissued the package on CD, Vanguard cut six tracks to fit The Best Of on a single disc, leaving 20. Eighteen of those tracks are repeated on Pack Up Your Sorrows: Best of the Vanguard Years, which restores one of the cut songs and adds two tracks from the 1968 outtakes album Memories, plus one previously unreleased instrumental, "Tuileries." All of that makes the new compilation a slight improvement in terms of selection, while the CD remastering improves the sound. (Ed Ward's enthusiastic but ill-informed liner notes -- he confuses the Big Sur Folk Festival with the Newport Folk Festival and makes other errors -- are not a plus.) As a lyricist, Fariña matched the elliptical style of mid-'60s Bob Dylan image for image, and tracks such as "Hard Loving Loser" are stylistically identical to the folk-rock of Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, partly because they employ some of the same sidemen. 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.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Dandelion River Run (1:47)
1.02 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Pack Up Your Sorrows (3:02)
1.03 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Reflections In A Crystal Wind (3:33)
1.04 - Mimi And Richard Farina - A Swallow Song (2:52)
1.05 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Tommy Makem Fantasy (Instrumental) (1:34)
1.06 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Hard-Loving Loser (4:41)
1.07 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Michael, Andrew And James (5:11)
1.08 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Hamish (Instrumental) (1:51)
1.09 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Another Country (4:05)
1.10 - Mimi And Richard Farina - The Falcon (3:43)
1.11 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Reno Nevada (3:12)
1.12 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Celebrations For A Grey Day (3:52)
1.13 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Bold Marauder (4:09)
1.14 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Dopico (4:00)
1.15 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Sell-Out Agitation Waltz (2:55)
1.16 - Mimi And Richard Farina - House Un-American Blues Activity Dream (3:13)
1.17 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Raven Girl (5:13)
1.18 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Miles (Instrumental) (2:58)
1.19 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Children Of Darkness (4:05)
1.20 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Blood Red Roses (2:33)
1.21 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Morgan The Pirate (5:42)
1.22 - Mimi And Richard Farina - Tuileries (1:13)


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  • whiskers
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Many thanks
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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for Flac.