Release Date: 11 September 2015
Label: Fledg'ling
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5020393309820
Genres: Folk Singer Songwriter
Description
Plainsong have reconvened to commemorate Richard Fariña - one of the very finest mid-sixties songwriters.
Richard Fariña (March 8, 1937 - April 30, 1966) - confidante of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Thomas Pynchon - was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident fifty years ago. He is largely remembered for two magical albums recorded with Mimi (younger sister of Joan Baez) which helped to create folk-rock, 'Celebrations for a Grey Day' (1965) chosen by Robert Shelton of the New York Times as one of the ten best folk albums of the year, and 'Reflections in a Crystal Wind' (1965).
Fariña's debut novel 'Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me' was published in 1966.
Plainsong - founded by Iain Matthews and Andy Roberts in 1972 - have championed Fariña's songwriting since the group's inception. With Reinventing Richard they have produced a classic album that imagines how his songs might have sounded, if written and first recorded in a 21st century electro/acoustic setting.
Includes 'Sombre Winds' - a previously unrecorded Fariña composition.
Tracklisting
John Renbourn & Jacqui McShee
Bob & Ron Copper
The Young Tradition
Anne Briggs
Shirley & Dolly Collins
The Young Tradition
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick
Hedy West
Plainsong
