As one who started to listen to Folk about 1963 (and stuck with it in the face of Beatle mania, and all that followed), I have never heard of Carolyn Hester. I have records by Barbara Dane and Judy Henske (one of Henske's is actually good), but no Carolyn Hester. Top female folkies should include Sylvia (Fricker) Tyson, Mary Travers and Joni Mitchell, all of whom had a profound affect on music, not just Folk music.