Colter Wall question
#1
Posted 08 November 2018 - 08:40 AM
https://www.youtube....h?v=hCebq5lLgos
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#2
Posted 08 November 2018 - 09:57 AM
#3
Posted 08 November 2018 - 10:55 AM
#4
Posted 08 November 2018 - 07:52 PM
I'm a Colter Wall fan (but I am not a modern country music fan). own 3 of his records on vinyl- amazing old soul - good story/lyrical songs.
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#5
Posted 08 November 2018 - 08:08 PM
#6
Posted 09 November 2018 - 01:06 AM
A few years back, Americana artist Mary Lou Lord complained on Facebook about the style. She posted a video of the aforementioned Dennen, and asked, "who the @&$!#* talks like that?!?" Except she was more blunt. She complained about Dennen and other singers whose voice, phrasing and weird-*** pronunciation twist things into incomprehensibility. One of the words she used to describe it was "mumbletwang." Said it drove her nuts because that's not how people talk.
While Wall certainly has a deep speaking voice, it's not quite as affected as his singing voice:
This post has been edited by dhanners623: 09 November 2018 - 01:48 AM
#7
Posted 09 November 2018 - 02:22 AM
That’s not music. That guy can’t even sing
I’d rather hear a Coulter wall than a Kenny chesney any day
#8
Posted 09 November 2018 - 05:25 AM
I love this style of writing, and I mean no slight to Colter here, but can’t help but feel that Townes really wrote the book on it close to 50yrs ago. There is always room in the world for more minor key country laments about love, death, hell and trains though, and I’m no stranger to that way of writing myself.
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#9
Posted 09 November 2018 - 06:30 AM
#10
Posted 09 November 2018 - 08:55 AM
Dwight Yoakam treated it this way
#12
Posted 12 November 2018 - 03:40 PM
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This post has been edited by MissouriPicker: 12 November 2018 - 03:41 PM
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#13
Posted 12 November 2018 - 03:45 PM
#14
Posted 12 November 2018 - 05:34 PM
dhanners623, on 09 November 2018 - 01:06 AM, said:
A few years back, Americana artist Mary Lou Lord complained on Facebook about the style. She posted a video of the aforementioned Dennen, and asked, "who the @&$!#* talks like that?!?" Except she was more blunt. She complained about Dennen and other singers whose voice, phrasing and weird-*** pronunciation twist things into incomprehensibility. One of the words she used to describe it was "mumbletwang." Said it drove her nuts because that's not how people talk.
While Wall certainly has a deep speaking voice, it's not quite as affected as his singing voice:
David, thanks for the video. I have had his cd's for over a year now and I have not heard him speak in an interview, so, that is enlightening. His speaking voice is very deep, indeed, but he doesn't have that 'catch' he has when he sings (and appears to be in pain lol). I worried he has polyps or something, lol. I really like the guy, his voice, his playing, his writing.
Your comment about Mary Lou Ford complaining, I am going to have to check into what all she said because it is EXACTLY the conversation I had with a friend just yesterday. I was complaining about certain artists who mumble. I told him I take great pains to when I sing, to enunciate. If I have any strong point, I think it is that you can probably understand my sung words. I told my friend that since I have been on a Bob Dylan kick for quite awhile now, one thing most definite about early Dylan is you can understand every word. A lot of the times you heard one of these artists mumble, it has to do with them trying to evoke a style, putting angst or blues or whatever into it and it covers up their diction.
This post has been edited by livemusic: 12 November 2018 - 05:35 PM
Bill
1956 Country Western, natural
1968 J-50, natural
1992 J-30, all-mahogany
1993 Gospel, sunburst
1994 Gospel 100th Anniversary, natural
1995 Gospel w/Gibson Accuvoice pickup, natural
2004 WM-45, sunburst
2010 J-45 Standard, Gibson pickup, sunburst
2011 Jackson Browne Model A, sunburst
2016 J-45 1942 Legend Limited, Torrefied, sunburst
2017 J-45 1960s J45 Ebony VOS (black, white pickguard)
Too many more (other brands)
#16
Posted 12 November 2018 - 07:22 PM
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Gibsons J45TV, Hummingbird, Dove, Southern Jumbo Mystic, Advanced Jumbo Rosewood
Advanced Jumbo Koa, J100 Walnut
Alvarez MFA66CE Masterworks OM/Folk
Martin X Series 2016 D12X1AE Dreadnought 12-String
Regal 1944 Parlor Guitar
LAG Nylon Stringed
Oahu 1941 Squareneck Parlor Guitar
Yamaha YPG-535MM Keyboard
and a herd of ukes, banjos, strumsticks, harmonicas and dulcimers,
making me a "jack of all trades and master of none."
#17
Posted 13 November 2018 - 03:33 AM
Sometimes when I drag my wife out to an open mic (she neither plays nor sings, but is a good sport) she'll hear some of the women performers mumble their lyrics and throw some sort of affectation into their voice, which my wife dubs, "Female Angst." I usually know it's time to go when that happens.
I have never liked my singing voice, and from time to time I've tried some technique to make it sound different, but nothing has ever worked. So at least what I do is authentic to me. It sucks, but at least it's me.