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Thread #21664   Message #231742
Posted By: Whistle Stop
22-May-00 - 09:20 AM
Thread Name: Joan Baez- educated recent opinion?
Subject: RE: Joan Baez- educated recent opinion?
Actuallu, Cry Cry Cry was/is comprised of Dar Williams, Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky. Joan Baez was never a member, although she has done much to help Williams and Shindell get more national exposure.

I've seen Joan twice (once solo with her band, once with Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue), both back in the 1970's. I have always thought she was overrated -- there's not a lot of subtlety to her voice, she really doesn't interpret a lot of the songs very well, and that over-the-top vibrato that she employs indiscriminately can get pretty grating, in my opinion. If I never hear her bulldoze her way through "Amazing Grace" again, that's okay with me.