This Is This

Or technically: Twelve People Like Whom I Wish I Could Sing

Computer still broken - another list.

I wish I could sing like:

1. Dave Gilmour - Pink Floyd - Only someone this cool could sing with a posh English accent and still sound this good.

2. Ray Charles - God damn. Why what is it about his voice that makes him sound like he’s in the room with you?

3. Neil Finn - Crowded House - The most versatile voice in the world, in my view.

4. Ben Taylor - The aural equivalent of melted dark Toblerone chocolate on strawberries. Fact. Next.

5. Glen Phillips - Toad The Wet Sprocket - See Neil Finn. Also Glen Tilbrooke from Squeeze.

6. Bob “the Bear” Hite - Canned Heat - the best voice in blues. Howling Woolfe with range, Big Bill Broonzy with punch.

7. Levon Helm - The Band - Honest and a little raspy. He sounds like he’s talking to you after saving your life.

8. Ben Folds - Clear as a bell and making the song matter more than he does.

9.Maynard James Keenan - Tool - A little thin and nasally and it shouldn’t work in hard rock, but it so does.

10. Randy Travis - The Mister Darcy of country music. Laconic, he sounds like he’s barely bothered to say the words, but it’s worth your while hearing them.

11. Nat King Cole - Impossibly smooth and makes any words sound better. Anything he sings you hear through rose-tinted ear-trumpets.

12. Steve Earle - I wish I could be as sure about anything as he sounds about everything.

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