The sublime vocalists you have heard..

[ebonics]

Chris Whitley
Diamanda Galas
Sam Cooke

 

[lynne8]

Freddy Mercury
Steve Perry

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I might include Jim Morrison in here.

 

[Orang Utan]

Lee Dorian
Karl Willets
Phil Vane

 

[Dr. Furface]

ian brown

 

[Pinette]

Ella, Nina Simone, Julie London, Carmen Macrea, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Billie Holiday, Jose Ferrera (sp!) Peggy Lee. (The more I think about this, the more other singers come to mind. I'd forgotten about Julie London until another poster mentioned her. We had quite a few records of hers in the 60's but they got nicked during a housemove.) Oh, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles... Oh, and Tom Jones - no, really! Will stop now. Promise! Oh, Charles Aznavour.....Oh, Charles!!

 

[N_igma]

Louise Rhodes (girl from Lamb)

 

[High Voltage]

Danny Bowes - Thunder

Have seen them live more than enough and each and every time I cannot get over how good his voice is (granted, it's a rock voice but still a blinding good voice never the less)

 

[LDR]

My top five in no particular order.

Bic Runga
Chris Cornell
Bruce Dickinson
Freddie Mercury
Bobbi Gentry

This list will change by tomorrow.

 

[skaboy]

sublime?Brad Nowell!

 

[tastebud]

Feist. Leonard Cohen.

 

[chooch]

Bettye Swann, Irma, Dusty, James Carr, Howlin Wolf.
In the not a very good singer but category, plenty more.

 

[Annierak]

Liz Frazer
Beth Gibbons
Hope Sandoval
Tracey Thorn
Chris Robinson
Elvis Costello
Dusty Springfield

 

[chooch]

Liz Frazer

Ooh. Very lovely

 

[Annierak]

oh i forgot Otis Redding, worra voice!

 

[Annierak]

Ooh. Very lovely

Liz Frazer's voice makes me melt...haven't got a fuckin clue what she's singing about but it's gorgeous!

 

[chooch]

Liz Frazer's voice makes me melt...haven't got a fuckin clue what she's singing about but it's gorgeous!

Yeah. I love a bit of mystifying etherealness.
Otis ain't so bad either, obviously. The phrasing in that's how strong my love is is mostly how I'd like to be.

 

[Annierak]

Yeah. I love a bit of mystifying etherealness.
Otis ain't so bad either, obviously. The phrasing in that's how strong my love is is mostly how I'd like to be.

The phrasing on Cigarettes And Coffee is how i am

oh and i almost forgot Al Green...another great soulful voice, he gives me goosebumps

 

[chooch]

:
oh and i almost forgot Al Green...

Aye. Bless the blessed Al, though with a word for Ann Peebles and the incredible Hi records band

 

[editor]

Karen Peris (Innocence Mission)
Paul Buchanan
Natalie Merchant
Thom Yorke
Kate Bush

 

[Annierak]

Aye. Bless the blessed Al, though with a word for Ann Peebles and the incredible Hi records band

Oooooo i love Ann Peebles! Hey and what about Curtis Mayfield?

 

[purves grundy]

Bjork
HR (Bad Brains)
Frank Sidebottom

 

[Annierak]

Bjork
HR (Bad Brains)
Frank Sidebottom

Frank Sidebottom? "Timperley sunset" is a great song

 

[chooch]

Hey and what about Curtis Mayfield?

Obviously wonderful, but maybe a bit multi-multi-talented to be one of yer out-of-nowhere vocal marvels. Bloody brilliant, mind.

I'm drawn to include a few affecting broken-voiced country greats, Any thoughts?

 

[Annierak]

Obviously wonderful, but maybe a bit multi-multi-talented to be one of yer out-of-nowhere vocal marvels. Bloody brilliant, mind.

I'm drawn to include a few affecting broken-voiced country greats, Any thoughts?

Hmm let me think. Not that big on country but i do love Emmylou Harris. Ooooo Lucinda Williams is a big favorite too
Loretta Lynn, Gram Parsons

 

[chooch]

Hmm let me think. Not that big on country but i do love Emmylou Harris. Ooooo Lucinda Williams is a big favorite too
Loretta Lynn, Gram Parsons

Aye. Loretta's got fantastic control and phrasing. Enormously underrated by having pedal steels oozing behind her, I reckon. And everyone accepts Gram's heartbreaking, surely, unless they're dim.

Gillian Welch, for odd channeling of 20s/30s Okieness, and for being maybe the best live performer I've seen.

 

[Annierak]

Aye. Loretta's got fantastic control and phrasing. Enormously underrated by having pedal steels oozing behind her, I reckon. And everyone accepts Gram's heartbreaking, surely, unless they're dim.

Gillian Welch, for odd channeling of 20s/30s Okieness, and for being maybe the best live performer I've seen.

I've heard about Gillian Welch but never heard any of her stuff. I know someone who has her cd (hope you're reading this Sojourner ) so will hopefully get a copy burned

 

[chooch]

I've heard about Gillian Welch but never heard any of her stuff.

Oh, she's beautiful, in a pale, blinking kind of way. She sounds like what you'd like your favourite shy aunt (and her supportive though slightly less eccentric boyfirend) to sound like. Very wide-eyed and carefully modulated about a dying child in Alabama.

Tell me about Lucinda Williams. Don't know nothing.

 

[Annierak]

Oh, she's beautiful, in a pale, blinking kind of way. She sounds like what you'd like your favourite shy aunt (and her supportive though slightly less eccentric boyfirend) to sound like. Very wide-eyed and carefully modulated about a dying child in Alabama.

Tell me about Lucinda Williams. Don't know nothing.

Lucinda Williams has been around for years. She's an American rock, folk, and country music singer and songwriter. Her best album IMO is "World Without Tears", i strongly recommend this album and her vocals on this are amazing. Laced with heartache and sorrow, steeped in loneliness and disillusionment, these 13 achingly beautiful songs capture the notoriously uncompromising singer-songwriter adrift in a stark, candlelit landscape of woozy country waltzes and raw-bones, deliberately paced roots-rockers.
She has a sexy, broken-voiced gravelly type vocal that really does make you sit up and listen. She's 55 now and has released many albums as well as writing for other artists. I really do recommend "World without tears"

 

[chooch]

Lucinda Williams has been around for years. ...

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