Well the book certainly made me like Bob and Joan less, but then, like most of you, my enchantment with Joan was short-lived (when there was no other female folk-singers around yet!)(Add Buffy St. Marie to Sylvia Tyson, Judy Collins and others who replaced her in my head). As for Bob -- is this sacrilege? -- I was so far into the "real stuff" by the time Dylan went electric, that I never had that idol worship of him, anyway, although songs like "Rainy Day Woman" and "Don't Think Twice" can zap me right back to a time and place. The book did make him out to be a little creep, didn't it? Then again, I understand that the bulk of the interviewing was with Mimi; therefore the point of view may have been hers.

Still on the subject of Hadju's book, it made me realize that if I'd known Richard Farina, I would have liked him an awful lot (Carolyn Hester, by the way, raised quite a few objections to that book in parts of an interview someone sent me (and I promptly lost) by reviewer Hugh Blumenfeld, if you can find it. Her objections were on the SIDE of Richard -- that Hajdu took liberties with time spans -- Richard didn't leave her THAT quickly, that she never held a gun at him, more.

Yeah, maybe it makes those R&M albums just a little bit less enchanted.