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

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.

Pokey is pretty much a fiend in human shape and is often seen slowly tooling about town in a Studebaker on white walls. Far below Pokey Reese, Pokey the horse, any other Pokey you would care to name in the Pokey sweepstakes.

http://hhhhappy.com/the-soul-voice-is-dominating-the-charts-and-more-than-likely-here-to-stay-are-you-a-fan/

I skimmed this article and my eyes kept getting wider and wider.

lol i know right

Peking Duk? Hiatus Kaiyote? Saskwatch? Chet Faker? smfh

"Sydney producer Joyride, a bearer himself of a James Brown-esque croon"

"erogenous vocal chords" (sic)

Just stop. Really.

that link reads like a clickhole link

Frankie Lee's old man hat game is off the hook

http://www.folkradio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/frankie-lee-american-dreamer.jpg

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

not the typical voice but seems just as phony and annoying

saw langhorne slim at a radio show taping last month and yeah, white dude in the old man hat voice

Is there a name for the female equivalent of this? Apropos of nothing, here are two different young women covering the same Arctic Monkeys song using exactly the same overly-affected singing voice that I hear from so many female indie/folk musicians. Every phrase ramps up from a vocal fry/bottom of range syllable, every vowel stretched out of recognition, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVLFbGryE9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC-mRtBYTHs

Arkansas is a hotbed of all this, male and female versions, and I fear it may never end.

i think someone might have gotten upset on here when i called it the old cat lady voice. needs a better name though. it's so big with kids at talent shows. it's kinda the default voice for girl with acoustic guitar on youtube.

oh god i hate this way of singing. the UK has its own special variant of mid-late 20s female singer-songwritey over-affectations.

kind of reminds me of a less-Irish-soudning Dolores O'Riordan or something.

definitely seems internet-derived too. though you can trace it to specific singers that were pre-internet. like cat power and her peer billy holiday. at least kill whitey freak folkers don't try to sound like karen dalton anymore.

it IS kind of impressive how far-reaching it is though. i mean 12 year old girls across the nation slurring their words in the exact same world-weary way.

my really unpopular hipster opinion: i can't listen to karen dalton at all. i can't take that voice. would much rather listen to the sibylle baier style or sandy denny-style brit folk voice.