Well, it's all a matter of taste, isn't it? Joan has her own style, and it's a very straight delivery which some people don't like. The vibrato was something she apparently lacked (according to her autobiography) when she first started singing (before she did it professionally) and she tried desperately to develop some vibrato by various techniques, since she thought good singers were supposed to have vibrato! Ironical, isn't it? :-) But for that one egregious error in judgement, she might have attained musical nirvana and secured the full approval of Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger!

They hated Dylan too, but I doubt that he's lost any sleep over it. They are big fish in the little pond of their own imagination. Again, it's simply a matter of taste. McColl and Seeger don't hold the patent to "folk music", nor does anyone else. Folk music will always change and evolve as time goes by.

- LH