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I just ran across Rhiannon Giddens on Spotify this week.

Wiki: Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician. She is a founding member of the country, blues and old-time music band Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she is the lead singer, violinist, and banjo player.
Giddens is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, an alumna of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, and a 2000 graduate of Oberlin Conservatory at Oberlin College, where she studied opera.

Shake Sugaree. The song may not be your cup of tea, but she has a magical voice and her classical training shows! The studio recorded version is better, but this live version is great. Ms. Giddens has the voice of an angel!

What does the lyric "didn't we shake up sugaree" mean?

Libba Cotten played in the student lounge in Montgomery Co., Md. (@ 1970) She played backward and upside-down (self taught) and I was *this far* from her, amazing experience; up so close to a legend!

Joni Mitchell was discovered at ‘The Flick’ in Miami Springs, Fla. and she was brought out to Laurel Springs - the ‘Canyon’, where she hooked up with Graham Nash, Micky Dolenz, Mama Cass (now SHE could belt ‘em out!), and others, Hendicks, Zappa...there are various documentaries on that period of time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26WVPhVZ0lM is one.

We’d go to the Flick on double dates in H.S. (they didn’t serve alcohol) and Jimmy Buffet was the opening act for the *real* headliner, the ‘star’- which was Dion, the first time I went there. I can say, it was the first time I ever heard a true, professionally modulated voice. He sang Purple Haze, of all things! and that reverb/echo-ey thing he does is his own voice, without special effects, just him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oPBZC1Zh10

I appreciate these threads on FR, especially bc I’m an old fart too, and like discovering new things like that Rhiannon Giddens sample, and if that’s a style you like, you might like Kate Wolf. She’s mellow, not a ‘belter’
https://tinyurl.com/y46hxel7

Someone mentioned Streisand, but I was a fan of the one who actually wrote (& played in her own right) several of Streisand’s hits - Laura Nyro. I saw her perform at Duke, and she was perfectly beautiful!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT1ZJoFIclM

Sadly, SO sadly, she and Kate Wolf died young (leukemia IIRC).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld9cqhnsFa8 is one of Laura’s albums. She was a unique genius, and the world is poorer for her passing.

I’ve always preferred the female voice, and am drawn to unique talents, who compose, play, and perform their own material...Joan Armatrading being a notable example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oag3I4VRXyM
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KobD7np9XBE

Most of the ‘high end’ singers can span 4 octaves:
Minnie Ripperton, Julie Andrews, Art Garfunkle

but here’s one who can control 5! HE is the most outstanding voice I have ever heard, bar none. Dimash, in a singer competition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cxz9tlVKjg

even the “reaction videos” are fun to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1frxCZwDQI