Well I am going to leap to the defense of Joan Baez...I for one think she is a very fine interpreter, especially of traditional material, but does a good reading of contemporary classics like Dixie (hey, when you consider typical production values and arrangements you'd hear on the radio in the early seventies, there's all the reasons in the world her take got played to death and then some) ...and saying she doesn't know how to sing is just plain silly. You don't have to sound forced and quirky to be good. (I will agree that she's not a great songwriter--which is probably why she fell out of notice when she started concentrating on her original material).

But I digress...

Willie-O