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Joan Baez - Do I just not get it?

Hi,

I'm a relatively young music/audio guy (24). I recently bought a remaster LP of Joan Baez "In Concert" which I've heard is a great album, both musically and soundwise.

This is my first exposure to Joan Baez - and not meant to offend fans... But I could not make it past song two. Now I love singer/songwriter music, and certainly enjoy female vocals and acoustic guitar... but her voice! It is unlistenable! She uses so much vibrato and sounds like a sheep... baaaaaaa... Stevie nicks can at least get away with being a sheep because she has the rock music to keep the attention away... but joan Baez - How do you guys enjoy listening to this stuff? The vibrato is terrible!
goatwuss

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stuartk
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Baez elicits the very same reaction in me, goatwuss. Perhaps she was classically trained?

Rhiannon Giddens is a highly respected artist who started out singing opera but switched to Roots styles. To my ear, her singing sounds exceedingly stilted. Is it coincidental that she was heavily influenced by early folkies such as Baez and Pete Seeger? 
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