Word: baez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Depends on Intent. The most gifted of the newcomers is New York-born Joan Baez, 21, who has sold more records than any other girl folk singer in history, and who last week had two albums perched high on the pop charts. Songstress Baez (pronounced buy-ezz) boasts a pure, purling soprano voice, an impeccable sense of dynamics and phrasing, and an uncanny ability to dream her way into the emotional heart of a song. Her materials-which she claims people simply send to her in the mail and on which she does no research-are mostly Anglo-American ballads...
...physicist with UNESCO in Paris), she had scarcely sung until four years ago, when she took a few informal lessons while attending Boston University. She developed her repertory and style performing for Harvardmen, who flocked to a coffeehouse two blocks from Harvard Square to listen to every Baez syllable with furious concentration. Joan's response to commercial success was to turn down $100,000 worth of concert dates in a single year. "Folk music,'' says she. "depends on intent. If someone desires to make money, I don't call it folk music." To ensure that...
...Bonnie Dobson, 21, sounds nearer to Baez than any of the other new folk-girls, although her voice and delivery are lighter and the impact of her performances is different: for Joan's tragic, gypsy quality, Bonnie substitutes a fresh, willowy charm that never deserts her in even the darkest laments. She mixes American and French-Canadian songs, and she has a more antic taste than most of her contemporaries: On the wedding night, When he came to bed with me, He bit me on my shoulder And nearly broke my knee...
...Judy Collins, 23, has a robust alto that she wields with strong dramatic sense, supported by a shrewd selection of material. Both help make up for a voice less handsome than either Baez' or Dobson...
Many of Judy's songs are Scottish, English or Irish, and some of them-The Golden Apples of the Sun, The Bonnie Ship the Diamond-are not often heard in folk circles. If Baez has a tragic sense and Dobson an antic one, Collins has an intense, Holy Roller quality. Colorado-born, she is married to a teacher of English at the University of Connecticut...