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

It's the Mike Love look.

'white dude in old man hat' is this guy to me:

http://anthropology.ua.edu/blogs/matthewgreenemeier/files/2012/09/home-improvement-wilson2.jpg

anyway, all these dudes are disgusting savages. i'd totally listen to wilson from home improvement's acoustic musings, though.

what a tragedy it is that earl hindman is dead while newton faulkner still walks the earth.

awesome, awesome picture, scott.

cosign

Regarding this motherfucker. Fuck, the first time I heard any Jack Johnson songs I was 22 and I was going through a really bad breakup and they played a block of his tunes on an NPR station. And I was like, "Wow, it's cool that they're giving this sad old middle-aged man a chance. He sounds like he's going through a mid-life divorce or something. You don't hear about too many new artists who are this old.

"He probably has to live in some sad, little apartment and only see his kids on Wednesdays or something..."

I saw a copy of Murry Wilson's album, the other day.

Thought better of it.

decided to google this (well known but i don't pay attention) cunt after hearing his voice in the pub every fucking day for the last three years - and he's english! what a cock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZp6dhheriM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRxccy-zcJ8

fuck. i've suffered so you should too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZp6dhheriM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRxccy-zcJ8

it's like watching a computer generated singer songwriter

i watched 30 seconds of the first video and that was enough.

This remains one of my favorite ILM threads. I say 'young man in an old man hat' to myself all the time. It's like one of the three modern diagnoses.

I can't outright hate Jack Johnson bc when my coworker's 6 yo son was on his deathbed (fuck cancer) Johnson called him on the phone and sang his favorite song to him (kid super loved JJ). I don't ever wanna hear his music but that was a nice thing to do.

aw, that is really nice. his curious george album sucks though. i bought that for rufus years ago thinking it was gonna be songs about, you know, curious george.

I actually like "Upside Down," Jack's closing credits song for "George." Probably couldn't deal with a whole album of stuff like that though.

I thought this thread was going to be about Jimmy Durante

Thread scarily prescient in presaging the rise of the Lumineers.

old man take a look at my hat, I'm a lot like you were

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.