Dick Farina

[davemarc]

At 09:53 AM 6/3/96 EST, Richard Romeo wrote:
>I bought a Sandy Denny retrospective last night and noticed one of the 
>songs she sings, "The Quiet Joy of Brotherhood" was written by Dick 
>Farina. Was he a songwriter too?  Or should I ask is this the same Farina 
>so discussed on these pages?
>
Richard Farina was a musician (composer, dulcimer player, singer) as well as
a writer.  On the 1965 album CELEBRATIONS FOR A GREY DAY there's a cut
called "V."  About it, Farina writes, "Call it an East-West dreamsong in the
Underground Mode for Tom Pynchon and Benny Profane.  The literary listener
will no doubt find clues to the geographical coordinates of Vheissu, the
maternal antendents of the younger Stencil, and a three-dimensional
counter-part of Botticelli's Venus on the half shell.  May they hang again
on a western wall."

Don't know about "The Quiet Joy of Brotherhood," though.

davemarc