The thing about Colters voice is that it has changed on each album. His first release saw him trying to reach his voice too high and getting a weak vibrato sounding more like a sheep or a goat. The songs were amazing from an artist and songwriter standpoint but his voice was weak and I'm sure a lot of that had to do with age and experience and lack of confidence. I'd love to hear him rerecord it with his new voice. Colters second album saw him ditch the vibrato atempt and stay in a lower range where he had more vocal control. But his voice still seemed like it lacked confidence and range and depth. But the Plainsman album saw Colter with complete vocal control including a beautiful vibrato (night herding song, manitoba man) with range and depth and absolute confidence. I don't know what he did but he should get vocalist of the year spanning multiple genre's. His voice is velvety smooth, deep and all his own. I would like to see him release a double live album of Colters first 2 albums performed with this amazing new voice he has clearly worked hard on to make it perfect. I typed this because of all the commenters who are saying his voice is weird, different, etc. Compare it yourselves from album to album if you don't agree and I'm sure you will then agree. 🙂
