The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina.
The definitive history, a daring biography and an unputdownable read, of an age, a sound and a place.
When Bob Dylan, age twenty-five, disappeared from public view, he closed a chapter on one of the most fascinating stories in post-war cultural history. In just five years Dylan had become a spokesman for the counterculture; Greenwich Village had become the epicentre of youth style; and folk music; once played by earnest throwbacks; had been crossed with rock 'n' roll to form a thoughtful, literate new musical style.
'Positively 4th Street' tells us the story of just how folk became rock by looking at four young beatniks and their rise to fame: Bob Dylan, his part-time lover Joan Baez, her sister Mimi, and Mimi's husband, the writer Richard Farina. It is that rare find; a new story to tell of a moment no one can forget.
