Just an average singer

With a great voice

And great music

Marty Robbins isn't the most technically competent musician but he was the superlative Western music singer

it didn't matter

Whereas Frankie Laine took his jazz singer skills to movie soundtracks

No, you can't hear Gunfighter Ballads and miss the point unless you're trying

the master's call is a club banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjMNOouIb0k

then you get this

I need to find more singers I actually like

i don't understand what people are looking for in music if not The Master's Call

unless it's just soundtracks for eating sweat out of assholes

i think another bit

is how effortless it sounded

like he took you to the mountains

basically all the songs are journeys

outside of them being ballads

not like the kinds of variations you see in advanced metal

which song vry_o

but structurally it's there if you pay attention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PajPwxuG9oI

this has more in common with reign in blood slayer

than it does garth brooks

which is pretty funny considering

the Don McLean guy sings good

real good

he sung that chipper song American Pie

that was him?

yes, that's his most popular song

he needs to stop sliding

..pretty much his only song in fact

if he simply fixed that one thing I'd give him 10/10

like... if we're actually going to talk singing for a sec, it boils down to this

there is classical singing, which is master race but is essentially technical rather than expressive

so all good singers fundamentally do the same thing as classical singers, but what defines them is their divergences in technique

@profagonist : http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/after-science-has-tradition-been-broken.html

in this guy's case he likes to slide a lot, as one major difference

so really when assessing a singer I basically ask, "does this person have the capacity for classical singing?" and if the answer is yes, "Do their divergences from it help or harm their sound/expression?"

and then there's little stuff like a person's natural timbre but I generally don't hold it against people

@Deleted User 57835c2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE5sJy44s-Y what do you think about this guy?