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Thread #78493   Message #1411774
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
16-Feb-05 - 10:59 AM
Thread Name: Info: Carolyn Hester: 60's Folksinger
Subject: RE: Carolyn Hester: 60's Folksinger
Brucie, thanks for that link. I agree with that assessment of her voice. I listened to side one of the album I have here and I couldn't fault her ability to hit all of the notes she was aiming for, but there was something missing in the delivery, a resonance, perhaps, that Baez and Collins definitely have have. Hester seens to have been throughly into the mix of folk music activity going on at the time. One wonders if Peter Paul and Carolyn would have been the same kind of superstars in the field without the strength in Mary's voice that Carolyn doesn't have. It's all about choices. I'm glad to see that she is still singing and networking. I hope she has made a decent living at it all of these years!

SRS