The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #44532   Message #655800
Posted By: Peter Kasin
22-Feb-02 - 10:37 PM
Thread Name: Is Joan Baez a fraud?
Subject: RE: Is Joan Baez a fraud?
I love her voice. Her vibrato never seemed flowery or overdone to me. It sounds full of emotion but not full of theatrics. Sometimes vibrato can still have a folk sound or convey raw emotionalism, such as in the singing of Ewan MacColl. It takes a brilliant folksinger to pull it off and with those few exceptions I generally don't go for it.

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