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...Joan Baez considers herself a folk singer I June 1, she is indeed mistaken. If she believes that by wearing burlap, communing with nature and refusing money, she can maintain an "ethnic" image, it is only to those pseudo-intellectual "preppies" and college "folkniks" that she appeals. To those who know something about folk music, publicizing oneself with the "hair to the navel, dirt in the toes" effect is the grossest form of commercialism...
...only compare Joan Baez singing folk music to Joey Dee performing La Traviata...
...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...