Isn't it strange how criticising this or that folk icon is a little like farting in church.
I don't like E.C.'s singing either, she has a good voice which, so far at least, doesn't seem to have reached the songs she sings (yet - she is young).
On the other hand, I'm not particularly fond of her parents' singing either. Her father's vocal idiosyncrasies always get in the way of my enjoyment of his well-researched songs, as do his tricksy accompaniments, and his sameness of vocal approach to my ear, makes them all sound the same.
Her mother has an excellent voice, but she always sounds to me as if she is still singing with the Watersons, who have just gone down to the bar and left her at it.
Sorry Cap'n, regarding Eliza's finer feelings, a saying about heat and kitchens springs to mind.
Jim Carroll