This fool lace doily I have for a memory (see the threads, see the holes?) tells me I was talking with Frankie or someone else about Frankie's voice back in the late 70's (or early 80's) and at that time she was having trouble with hoarseness and strain. Someone gave her feedback at that point that if she kept singing so loudly and stridently, she would ruin her singing voice in a relatively short time.
It was when she and Leon and Roy were singing together at the Vancouver (BC)Folk Festival.
I believe she signed up for voice lessons after that time, and I haven't heard her more recent things, so tell me, has her style changed?
I can also remember the awe I felt watching her, in the late afternoon light, stride off the end of the float at Sweetsmill, to skinny dip in the lake there. I can't imagine being that confident if I were blind.
Her newest CD has Mary Litchfield Tuel's "Way of Sex" on it.
Blessings,
Barbara