The best thing about Levon is that he has so many sides, from the sound his voice gave to the Band's rich harmonies to how he can rip it up on songs like "Yazoo Street Scandal," "Don't Ya Tell Henry," "Up on Cripple Creek" and "Rag Mama Rag." So we take the church to them." Says LeAnn Rimes, "Dolly made me realize that there are endless possibilities when communicating with your voice." Few artists have attacked singing with the ferocity of Jerry Lee Lewis, a key combustible element in the rock & roll Big Bang of the Fifties. "And after all these years of singing, she's hitting notes that some opera stars can't hit." "The only thing that vies with Haggard's poetic genius," says Dwight Yoakam, "is the gift he has as a singer who delivers those songs with one of the most pure and profoundly powerful voices in music." From "All Right Now" to "Can't Get Enough," his combination of macho blues power and melodic sensitivity still sets the standard for hard-rock frontmen. "Karen Carpenter had a great sound," John Fogerty once told "Anybody my age turning on MTV and seeing Annie Lennox sing 'Sweet Dreams' — that was enough right there," says Rob Thomas. No one else plays the drums or sings like Levon, much less doing it at the same time. Don Henley got his famously rough voice from belting out R&B tunes at Texas college gigs in his early band the Speeds. Everything you love about the night, about love and desire, sex and retribution, all those sides of us the blues was meant to call up. "It had to be with the first primate uttering a moan during sex," he says. "I knew she could really sing," Herbie Hancock said of his 2005 collaboration with teen pop's most accomplished vocalist. "He is Solomon the Resonator," Tom Waits has said, "the golden voice of heart, wisdom, soul and experience." "You could take 'Midnight Rider' and do it to 'Lovesick Blues.' preacher stone theater show. '""His voice is so tough and so masculine," says Alison Krauss, who grew up a big fan of Paul Rodgers, "he might as well be standing there with a gun while he's singing." Find your dream job, add valuable contacts, share expertise, and achieve greater success thanks to XING. I'll just come out and say it: My approach is to do my best Muddy Waters impersonation, straight out.
Haggard owes his biggest debts to country pioneers Jimmie Rodgers and Lefty Frizzell; when he dips down to his signature low notes, he's invoking another key influence: Southern soul man Brook Benton. Conversely, nothing in the vocal limitations of a Lou Reed guarantees a “Pale Blue Eyes” every time out, any more than singing as crazy-clumsy as Tom Waits guarantees a “Downtown Train.” Yet there’s a certain time-tested sturdiness to the lowchops approach forged by touchstone figures like Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison and Jonathan Richman, one that helps define rock & roll singing.For me, Bob Dylan and Patti Smith, just to mention two, are superb singers by any measure I could ever care about — expressivity, surprise, soul, grain, interpretive wit, angle of vision.
the tail end of it an octave higher.' Recently, he's picked up a Grammy and long-overdue recognition, and tracks such as "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" are now part of the soul canon.