[lbo-talk] A stoy about Joan Baez and southern white men

[Michael Hoover]

>>> Stuart323 at sbcglobal.net 01/12/06 9:00 PM >>>
Nick Tosches' book on  country music (Country:Stein and Day, 1977)
"Steve Young, a country singer born and raised in Alabama, played guitar in 
the early sixties for a folksy duet called Richard and Jim.  Steve first 
visited California with them, where he attended the wedding of richard and 
Mimi Fairna at the home of Joan Baez, who is Mimi's older sister.  Steve 
recalls that Baez, butterfly of egalitarianism and wet-dream queen of 
liberals everywhere was quite repulsed by the presence of a white Southern 
man.  The deplacement of hatreds is a droll thing." (p. 137)
Stuart Elliott
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at least 3 southern white men were at above wedding given that richard 
lockmiller and jim connor were also from 'bama, they'd met farina through 
their managers, or they had same manager for a time or same guy managed 
r&j and farina's first wife, folk singer carolyn hester, in any event, farina 
had written liner notes to one of their albums...

and now for - at least some of - the rest of the story:

richard and mimi farina:
http://www.richardandmimi.com/

jim connor:
http://users2.ev1.net/~smyth/linernotes/personel/Connor.htm

steve young:
http://www.steveyoung.net/home.htm

richard lockmiller:
well, he may have gone into acting, some small film parts and recurring tv roles...
mh 
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