So I guess I agree with those who have said they hate Baez (for me, it is her fake vibrato), and high, whiny girl singers--I agree with that, and especially the Irish trad Oireachtas/Comhltas sickeningly sweet high whiny girl voices (give me Dolores Keane any day of the week!). I also agree with Fred Miller about the stridently earnest and sincere voices of many a male folk singer.

I do appreciate a certain sort of off key traditional singing voice if it isn't fake sounding, I guess. Which is what I consider the high whiny female and stridently earnest male "folk" voice to be. Which is why I can listen to Dylan in small doses, singing his own songs that he still cares about. But if I had to listen to an entire Dylan CD of folk covers, well...you'd lose me there.