i want the name of the one person responsible for the white dude in the old man hat voice

http://www.yeproc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The-Happiness-Waltz_cover-384x350.jpg

that looks like a guy i went to high school with in an old man hat

Also looks a bit like Woody_Harrelson_stupid_hat.jpg

http://stupidhats.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/woody_harrelson_stupid_hat.jpg

Does Phosphorescent dude have an old man hat voice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbyFTz1m5Ac

dude outside my store harrassing people on the sidewalk for Oxfam is totally wearing an old man hat and singing in an old man hat voice. i kid you not. God is punishing me!!

don't worry - he will get his comeuppance for singing at a job that requires no singing whatsoever

http://gawker.com/only-nine-people-have-given-to-zosia-mamets-hipster-ba-510278912?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Clearly it was Leon Redbone

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll88/JollyvilleChick/Squidoo/LeonRedbone/LeonRedbone_JohnKnox_1.jpg

that's a v nice old man hat imo tho

I think he pulls of that look much better than these johnny-come-lately scruffamuffins

Love Redbone. Yeah his look/act is kind of a schtick, but he's so great at doing what he does. Him and Dan Hicks.

at least he appears to be aiming for the same thing the bluesmen he's imitating were aiming for, i.e. trying to dress well

I mean jfc compare with the shitsmeared mug of the happiness waltz dude

http://images.aloud.com/v3/artists/310x174/ben_kenney.jpg

After a successful US headline tour; Incubus’ Ben Kenney has announced details of a debut UK tour for September.

The writer, musician, multi-instrumentalist and Incubus bass player is currently working on his fifth solo studio album and has just released new track "Concord" which has been trending on Reverbnation in the US.

Meanwhile Ben is set to release a brand new EP "Leave On Your Make Up" later this year following his UK tour.

my local guitar shop has a hat rack full of old man hats. they also sell a shitload of ukes.

lol, I'm picturing heading out the door with my new uke and the salesman is like "Wait...you're gonna need one of these."

He's a musician, a multi-instrumentalist AND a bass player? What talent!

he's a human, a homo sapien, AND a man too!

I saw Ben when he was with the Roots. Thought he was pretty good with a guitar, actually.

here's an entire long boring dvd of that guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT3vkyvPWYE

Boy, ninety seconds in and I'm glad that he didn't have a mic when he was in the Roots.

man, incubus dude has FIVE solo records? that is the most frightening thing to me.

holy shit leon redbone looks like marc maron in that pic upthread

For reasons I have yet to fully analyse I find the middle eight of this particularly offensive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahx77Mf2L9c

Also deeply annoying when people with almost caricature american singing voices turn out to be from the fucking midlands.

He attributes his distinctive voice to a severe bout of whooping cough that nearly killed him when he was a baby

Oh sure whooping cough always pushes your accent 5000 miles further west.

that song is like being in au bon pain at 6am and hating life

U guys should have seen the faces this guy I just saw made while straining to sing old man hat style

did we solve this? was it m. ward? that's even an old hat dude name.

I was thinking about going to see Sturgill Simpson on Wed, but not only is it sold out, he's opening for this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzmOZQdcYY

I really can't take this shit, I think it might be my least favorite genre of music.

That is the epitome of old man hat music. Absolutely no regard for the times, except to hire a video guy who makes it look like one long instagram photo. Shit.

this is like watching josh charles trying to audition for the role of lightnin hopkins

"no regard for the time" = exactly. It's like this guy thinks that "Americana" is an actual genre of music that was popular in the nineteenfthoriftties

Something about this bill is making me IA. Sturgill Simpson is so the opposite of this guy -- legit outlaw country expertly played/sung.

surprised the sturge is opening that bill, pokey just seems so run-of-the-mill

yeah. it's sold out too, wonder if it's more for him than pokey.

I don't really like these songs but I feel that with time I could train myself to like them and to understand what distinguishes the successes among the young men with old man hats from the failures.

i hate that video/song a lot, i shut it off two seconds after he started singing

jack wall2 months ago
a breath of fresh air in a world of crap music
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Tenacious V5 months ago (edited)
This song makes me wanna spit nickels and whistle Dixie out my asshole!
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RobertJStewart106 months ago
These guys have a truly unique sound, that is both jaunty and authentic.

fasteddie41451 month ago
My girl and I saw Pokey and the boys at a music festival in town. You could tell from the expression on people's faces that they had no clue what to expect....I elbowed my girl lightly and said "watch their faces when the band starts" as expected 2 Pokey fans entered that tent and 502 Pokey fans exited that tent.....

"no regard for the time" = exactly. It's like this guy thinks that "Americana" is an actual genre of music that was popular in the nineteenfthoriftties

Or as I like to call it: The Nineteenthrifties

This song makes me wanna spit nickels and whistle Dixie out my asshole!

Music that good, AND it aids in daily regularity?

Oh great, now we're in Gumby.

both jaunty and authentic.

I didn't dare share my love for this hat guy...until now.

http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/keeping-music-secret-adam-torres/

although i guess its really jeff buckley and devendra having a baby that wears a hat...

y'all please help me make both jaunty and authentic the new No xxx, no credibility

btw that story how's life shared upthread about mistaking Jack Johnson for a middle-aged sadsack is almost hilarious enough to justify God'd baffling decision to create Jack Johnson

hatless old-man voice white dude was really throwing his soul into a furiously strummed acoustic gnarls barkley cover on the subway platform last night. ime the train has never taken longer to arrive.

c'mon people am i really the first to link to this guy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I5exsScaHWo

that pokey guy upthread and his band bought records from me after they played at the green river festival in town one year. olde-tymey records. they were nice enough.