Joan Baez - Do I just not get it?

Wc65mustang, it's not just France, it's the entire E.U.! "Bush Bashers" [regarding economic issues] should compare GDP, CPI, unemployment, worker productivity, projected economic growth, and taxes of the American and the E.U. economies. I'm a registered Republican, but I do not agree with many of the President's policies. But try to form opinions from facts not tainted by rabid emotions and political posturing. Far too often, BOTH parties engage in Machiavellian tactics!

>>At least we have Air America to keep us informed about no matter how much everything is going well it really isn't.<<

You bet and all 10 listeners depend on them for the truth.

I agree with you. That vibrato is horrible. Ludicrous. Inexplicable.
I guess it was

I'm a violist, so I know a thing or two about vibrato. Her vibrato sounds like she's using one of those old-time "weight loss" belts that were moved by an electric motor (Back in the forties or so; you'd see commercials for these contraptions with some model who had this rubber belt about six inches wide wrapped around her waist, and at each end it was attached to a motor. As the motor rotated, the belt would be pulled from one side and then the other. Sorry if you didn't need that explanation). Like she's in a car going down a VERY bumpy road.
I am offended by it! Which is totally irrational. I react as if she exaggerated that vibrato on purpose. As if, with all that protest music, she had included an extra ingredient. Now protest THIS! Joan and I will never reconcile on this; there's no way I can not hear that voice bouncing around.

Personally, I would have felt that anyone who responded to that complaint with, "You should listen to X or Y CD" had missed the mark. They're trying to be helpful but ignoring the complaint out of hand. They don't care about the excess vibrato; they just need to not let anyone not like an artist they have some personal preference for. Bless their little hearts!

Bob, you're talking to people 16 years in the past, lol. But, welcome aboard!

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?