Title: Positively Don't Bother
Review: "Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times..." reads like a hatchet-job on Dylan and Baez; an ain't she sweet love poem to Mimi Baez-Farina; and tainted hagiography for Richard Farina. I don't think any of us in our callow youth would fare much better as personalities, the problem with this book is that Mr. Hajdu doesn't have much of a feeling for the art that came out despite the creepiness of the milieu. It's a problem he shares with Howard Sounes's "Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan." Both books rank as over-inflated tabloid fodder. As far as giving us a feeling for the Greenwich Village folk scene - well, we catch a whiff of its seedier aspects, but Mr. Hajdu hasn't been able to find much joy in it all. If you'd like to check out a well written, critical biography of the troubled and talented Bob Dylan, I'd suggest, "Behind the Shades: Take Two," by Clinton Heylin.
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