but one note from June or Norma would blow her out of the building.

Fighting talk! Well I think one note from Cecilia Bartoli would blow June and Norma out the building, but I still love Vashti - and JADD - for the pure joy the songs have given me & my own over the years. Somewhere, I still have a recording of my daughter singing Lily Pond when she was three. She is 29 this year and hates folk with a passion - so you might imagine it's the sort of thing she would dearly like to see destroyed. Since the reissue of JADD I've come to appreciate Vashti's roots and the uniqueness of her craft in an age when musical humanity has been all but subsumed by the slick. Rejoice I say.

Meanwhile, here's another of my favourite female singers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfpq11-sRVQ&feature=related