Yes, I have her first album and it is a stunner. But this is the album I happened to pull out tonight to decide which tracks to record, but I listened all the way through both sides. It is also the first Joan Baez I bought all those years ago. I do have some of her later works, not necessarily folk.

A few years ago she came out with a CD called Ring Them Bells in which she has new material, but also reinterprets some of her earlier work. The voice is not so pure at 60 as in her 20s, but plenty pure enough for me.

Judy Collins, had I been playing from Golden Apples of the Sun, I would have waxed on about her. The voice is pure, the musicianship superb, the early repertoire about the same as Baez's. Judy's later range of music is more ambitious (my opinion) than Joan's, and she had become a singer more in the tradition of the chanteuse.

It is good to be able to listen to them both.