I have begun record tracks from my LPs to CD. I'm listening, as I type, to Joan Baez (VSD-2097) v.2. I'm having an orgy of good memories as I listen to a pure voice and solo guitar (except for one track w/ the Greenbriar Boys). I was a sophomore at UCLA when I first heard this album and I'm retiring in one week.
Joan was the gold standard for traditional ballads and songs as far as I was concerned. No overtly political songs, no singing one's diary (as a folk friend of mine once described contemporary folk music), just fourteen really good melodies and lyrics...and that voice.