The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina.
This is the incredible story of how four young would-be bohemians met in Greenwich Village, fell in love, and changed the course of American music.
A candid and often intimate account, 'Positively 4th Street' tells the story of how folk became rock by looking at a group of young beatniks and their rise to fame. They were a colourful foursome: not only Dylan, but his part-time lover Joan Baez, her sister Mimi - and Mimi's husband, Richard Farina, a novelist and songwriter who virtually invented the worldly-wise bohemian persona that Dylan later made his own.
Through several hundred new interviews we are told of the musicians' rise from scruffy coffee-house folksingers to pop stars as the young Dylan has an affair with the famous Baez to further his career, Farina courts Mimi Baez while looking longingly at her older sister, and Farina's friend Thomas Pynchon keeps an eye on all their amours from afar.
