Joan Baez and Judy Collins, My Favorite '60's Folksingers

Two of my favorite female folk singers when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's were Joan Baez and Judy Collins. I had many of their albums and still have the song books of both of these folk musicians.

I grew up listening to a lot of great folk music, since both my mother and my father were interested in folk music. My mother bought albums of various folk groups and my father sang folk songs while accompanying himself on his guitar (ah, such wonderful memories!).

In the late '50's and early '60's we listened to The Kingston Trio, The Chad Mitchell Trio, and The Weavers. Later we enjoyed Peter, Paul, and Mary, and Simon and Garfunkel, and a little later still, John Denver.

But in my early teens, my friends and I also developed our own taste in folk musicians, including a handful of female folk singers such as Judy Collins and Joan Baez. I bought their songbooks and learned how to play simple guitar chords, and got together with my friends to sing the songs of these wonderful musicians.

Image of Joan Baez in 1973, by Heinrich Klaffs, CC Share-alike, 2.0.