Search results
Even though his band Plainsong “retired” in 2012, when founders Matthews and Andy Roberts joined with later member Mark Griffiths, and decided to pay tribute to Fariña, there was no doubt the resulting album, Reinventing Richard, should be a Plainsong release."
- (6)
- Rock, Folk, World, & Country
- 13
- Folk, Folk Rock
Plainsong was originally a British country rock / folk rock band, formed in early 1972 by Iain Matthews, formerly of Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort, and Andy Roberts, previously a member of The Liverpool Scene and Everyone. Plainsong's line-up consisted of Matthews, Roberts, piano and bass player David Richards[ a ] who had ...
Nov 19, 2022 · Plainsong – Reinventing Richard: The Songs Of Richard Fariña (Review + Giveaway) written by Helen Gregory 1 September, 2015 | Folk Radio UK. Scratching through the layers of myth and legend that have accumulated around the American writer, musician, poet and singer Richard Fariña, trying to apprehend the essence of this Renaissance man, this free spirit whose too-short life ended just as ...
May 10, 2024 · Plainsong's line-up consisted of Matthews, Roberts, piano and bass player David Richards [lower-alpha 1] who had played with Roberts in the band Everyone, and American guitarist and bass player Bobby Ronga [lower-alpha 2], who Matthews and Roberts had first met in the summer of 1971 when they toured the US and Canada as an acoustic trio with former Fairport guitarist Richard Thompson.
Oct 13, 2015 · Iain memorably recorded several Fariña songs on If You Saw Thro’ My Eyes (1971) and Tigers Will Survive (1972). Even earlier he’d sung “Reno Nevada” with Fairport Convention in their early days. Andy had been a fan of the Richard & Mimi Fariña albums from the first time he heard them. He says he decided to learn dulcimer after hearing ...
Mar 8, 2016 · RICHARD FARIÑA (March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966) was an American folksinger, song writer, poet and novelist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, of Cuban and Irish descent, he grew up in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn and attended Brooklyn Technical High School. He earned an academic scholarship to Cornell University, starting as an ...
People also ask
Which Farina songs did John Matthews record?
What songs did Iain Matthews sing at Fairport Convention?
When did Bob Dylan & Richard Faria release their first album?
Nov 24, 2015 · Just Plain Wonderful: Iain Matthews and Plainsong Reinvent Richard Fariña Richard Fariña was a significant member of the American folk music movement of the early 1960s. A fixture of the Greenwich Village scene that brought forth Bob Dylan , Fariña made music with wife Mimi , who also happened to be the sister of another popular folk artist named Joan Baez .
