Mimi Fariña Discography

A Mimi Fariña Discography
Listed chronologically by recording date.

	Mimi and Richard Fariña: Celebrations for a Grey Day April, 1965 (CD reissue 1995) Vanguard 79174. More Info

	Various Artists: Singer Songwriter Project July 1965 (CD Re-issue 2001) Elektra EKS-7299 Includes three songs by Richard Fariña. It's probably Mimi on guitar, but she is not credited. More Info

	Mimi and Richard Fariña: The Complete Vanguard Recordings November 13, 2001 Vanguard 200/02-2 Includes recordings of the Newport Folk Festival, July 24-25, 1965. More Info

	Richard and Mimi Fariña: Reflections in a Crystal Wind December, 1965 (CD reissue 1995) Vanguard 79204. More Info

	Richard and Mimi Fariña: Memories Fall, 1968 (CD reissue 1994) Vanguard 79263. More Info

	Various Artists: The Vanguard Folk Rock Album February 28, 2005 Ace Records CDWIKD 248 More Info

	Various Artists: Save the Children Women Strike For Peace Records (W-001) 1967. "Legend of a Girl Child Linda" featured the trio of Mimi, Joan, and Judy Collins, sung at the 1967 Newport Folk Festival. The album was never reissued on CD, but the trio's song was included on Joan's box set, Rare, Live & Classic. More Info

	Joan Baez: Rare, Live & Classic. Vanguard (125/27-2) 1993 This three-CD collection includes "Legend of a Girl Child Linda" for the first time on CD, as well as Mimi and Joan singing "Catch the Wind" released for the first time anywhere. Both tracks are from the 1967 Newport Folk Festival. More Info

	Joan Baez: Newport Folk Festival 1968. All Access, 2015. Mimi joins Joan on two songs, "Legend in my Time" (written by Don Gibson) and "Morning, Morning" (written by Tuli Kupferberg). "Morning, Morning" in particular is exquisite, not to be missed. This CD was released in the UK.

	Joan Baez: David's Album Vanguard (VSD 79308) May 1969. CD reissue: Vanguard (79746-2) 2005 Mimi sang on "Poor Wayfaring Stranger." As far as I know, this was the only time she was credited on a recording as "Mimi Fariña Melvin." This song was also released as the B-side of Joan's single, "Let It Be" (Vanguard VRS-35145, 1971). The second CD re-issue of David's Album included another Joan-Mimi duet, "How Can I Miss You" (written by Dan Hicks).

	Soundtrack: Fools Reprise (RS 6429) 1970. Mimi and Katherine Ross sing Mimi's song "If You Love" on the soundtrack of this movie. Mimi appears briefly in the beginning of the film, singing this song and playing guitar, but the song in its entirety appears only on this soundtrack (which is not available on CD).

	Al Stewart: Zero She Flies Collectors' Choice (CCM-767) 2007. Al Stewart's classic folk-rock album from 1970 was reissued on CD with the bonus track "Lyke Wake Dirge," whose chorus features, according to the notes, Mimi, Tom Jans, and members of The Young Tradition. The notes date the recording at 1979, but 1971, the year of Tom and Mimi's appearance at the Cambridge Folk Festival, makes more sense. Mimi's voice is just barely discernable in the introductory chorus. Buy it for Mimi if you're a completist, but replay it for Al Stewart's marvelous songs.

	Big Sur Festival: One Hand Clapping Columbia (KC 31138) 1972. Recorded at the Eighth (and last) Big Sur Festival, in 1971. Mimi's only credit is for the song "Me and Bobby McGee," credited to: "Entire Festival including Big Sur Choir, John Cooke, Mimi Fariña and Tom Jans, Larry Hankin and Lily Tomlin." But neither Mimi nor Tom Jans are really audible; I include it here only for the sake of completeness. There are three pictures of Mimi inside the gatefold cover, and one of them is reproduced in the large foldout poster included. In the notes producer Nancy Carlen recalls the origin of the first Big Sur Festival: "It started as a lark, Esalen Institute offering us a chance to take over that magnificent place for a whole weekend - the catch - an Esalen style seminar on "The New Folk Music." Well any time you found Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Fariña and me in the same place there had to be singing: so instead of meetings and lectures, sing we did, in the sulphur baths, on the lawns, even during meals sitting at long wooden tables in the lodge..."

	Ben Sidran: Feel Your Groove Capitol (ST-825) 1971. CD reissue: Acadia (8120) 2006. Mimi sings background vocals on the title track--a spooky, wordless scat la "Reno, Nevada." (Note to collectors: Ben Sidran recorded this song a couple other times; only the 7:15 version on this album has Mimi.)

	Mimi Fariña and Tom Jans: Take Heart A&M Records (SP4310) 1971. CD reissue: Real Gone Music (RGM-0132) April 2, 2013 [with first Tom Jans solo album] More Info

	Mimi Fariña and Tom Jans: Case Western Reserve 8th April 1972 Klondike Records (KLCD5015) 2015. More Info

	Joan Baez: Where Are You Now, My Son? A&M (SP-4390) May 1973. Mimi performs on two of her own compositions, "Mary Call" and "Best of Friends." These two songs were also released as the A and B side of a single (A&M 1454) in 1973. Mimi recorded them again for Solo many years later. She also performs on the Hoyt Axton tune, "Less Than the Song," which was a regular part of her live repertoire. The entire album is now available on CD on Joan's box set, The Complete A&M Recordings (2003), but the three songs with Mimi are unfortunately split onto two different discs.

	Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen: Tales from the Ozone Warner Bros (2883) 1975. CD reissue: Wounded Bird (WOU 2883) 2003. Mimi is credited as background vocalist (along with six others), but it doesn't state which songs. I honestly cannot hear her on any of them.

	Odetta and Mimi Fariña: Rolling Coconut Revue Japan Concert 1977 Disk Union (FJSP 388) 2020. Two separate segments of the famed Rolling Coconut Revue concert rolled into one CD. More Info

	Hoyt Axton: Snowblind Friend MCA (MCA-2263) 1977. CD reissue: Edsel (426) 1995. Mimi sang back-up vocals on "Water for my Horses." Mimi and Hoyt Axton were friends and occasionally toured together, and he performed at several Bread & Roses festivals (and also on the Commander Cody album above).

	Various Artists: Bread and Roses Festival of Acoustic Music Fantasy (F-79009) 1979. Recorded 1977 More Info

	Various Artists: The Bread and Roses Festival of Music Fantasy (F-79011) 1980. Recorded 1979 More Info

	Tom Rush: Late Night Radio Night Light (HS-48011) 1984. On this record Mimi performs "A Swallow Song" at a Boston Symphony Hall concert. Tom Rush had begun this series of annual concerts in 1981 in honor of the old Club 47 coffee house, and Joan describes one of them in her autobiography, And a Voice to Sing With, in the chapter, "How Brightly Glows the Past." Joan says that Mimi performed "Old Woman" and then was joined by Maria Muldaur on "The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood." Joan says that this concert was on New Year's Eve of 1985, so the one on this album must be an earlier one. Here are the album notes on Mimi: In the days of the Club 47 Richard and Mimi Fariña were pillars of the folk music community in Cambridge, and their writing and performance earned them a large and devoted following. Mimi's voice has matured beautifully, and her loving treatment of Richard's The Swallow Song transfixed the audience, winning her new fans and persuading the original ones to re-enlist. Note to collectors: The CD Live at Symphony Hall, Boston, is a collection of just Tom Rush's performances, and does not inlude Mimi.

	Mimi Fariña: Solo Rounder Records (Philo CD 1102) 1986. More Info

	Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger: Live in Germany Recorded February 7, 1988. Dogfish Music, 2017 More Info

	Pete Sears & Friends: Watchfire Redwood Records (RRCD 8806) 1988. Mimi sings on "Save Something for the Children" and "Let the Dove Fly Free." She is credited as co-writer on the latter song. This album also features Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, David Grisman, and Holly Near. There are two different covers for this CD, but the songs are the same on both versions.

	Joan Baez: Ring Them Bells Guardian (7243 8 43989-2 5) 1995. Mimi and Joan perform "A Swallow Song." This was recorded at The Bottom Line in New York City, April 1995. This is sadly the last known recording of Mimi performing.

Compilations
	Mimi and Richard Fariña: Best of Mimi and Richard Fariña 1971 (CD reissue 1988) Vanguard, VSD 21/22. More Info

	Mimi and Richard Fariña: Pack Up Your Sorrows: The Best of the Vanguard Years 1999 Vanguard 79538 More Info

	Mimi and Richard Fariña: The Complete Vanguard Recordings November 13, 2001 Vanguard 200/02-2 More Info

	Mimi and Richard Fariña: Vanguard Visionaries June 12, 2007 Vanguard 73151-2 More Info

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