I absolutely love the way both Dylan AND Baez sing! I love them by themselves. I love them as a duet. They both sound great, but each in a completely different way. That's perfectly okay.

So consider that for a change. ;-) It does not have to be a choice of "either or...".

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, in fact, are among my 3 favorite singers of all time....which is not to say that there aren't a great many other fine singers out there. And better ones too. There are. But Bob and Joan just happen to do it for me.

Some other female singers I really like: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Joni Mitchell, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Emmy Lou Harris, Sylvia Tyson, Tish Hinojosa, Tanita Tikaram...to mention a few.

Some other male singers I really like: Jackson Browne, Stan Rogers, Al Stewart, Leonard Cohen.

Now all those people sound quite different from one another, don't they? And that's good. It's much more interesting that way. Dylan is one of the best-sounding singers ever in his own way...but you won't like the way he sounds one bit if you're not attracted to it in some way, right? There's gotta be something about it that pushes your buttons positively for some reason. And the reasons for that could be almost infinite in their variety. If you are attracted to it, you'll love it. If you aren't, you'll probably never have any idea why anyone else is! ;-)