Cobber, I was young too when Joan Baez came to Melbourne. Dare I say that while I was impressed by her glorious voice I was just a little disappointed that she talked so much - about herself and not the songs. I had my head in Shule Skerry and in the Scottish Border Country and in the American mountains - places she had lead me to. Her songs, on her early records, were a great influence on me and for that I'm really grateful. In Australia we had so little of that material. She was one of the singers who started me off on a journey to find the songs that still affect me most. Perhaps it's best I never have become attached to any particular singer although there are many I admire greatly. That way it's always the songs that are most important and not the singer. I do remember that I separated Joan Baez from the songs she sang on that hot day in Melbourne.
So we are nearly neighbours again Cobber! I live close to the SA border, in Western Victoria.