Post #28040 by thejab on Wed, Mar 26, 2003 1:44 PM

I really should clarify what I meant by "weak" vocals. I meant weak in that the singing style is not deep and soulful. This is just my personal preference but I like my country singers with deep, strong voices, like Johnny Cash or Dale Watson. In the case of women singers, Patsy Cline was the best. She had a fairly deep voice (as did Wanda Jackson and Charlene Arthur) compared to some of the more recent ones.

I did not mean "weak" in the songwriting or lyrics.

Of those artists you mentioned, I have not heard all of them. There is just so many of the older country artists (from the 1940s-1960s) that I keep discovering, and so much old music getting reissued, that I tend to spend my limited music budget on old music. I don't often buy CDs of some of the recent artists that I love to see live, because I have bought plenty of CDs in the past of artists I like that have just a couple good tracks and many merely OK ones. One exceptions is Big Sandy - I'll buy anything that man had a hand in.

Again, its my personal preference, so please don't take it personal, waikiki.