records with shit deep singers

[syrupcore]

I'm looking for rock/soul music with really low voiced singers that I could download a tune or two to learn a little something from. My voice is shit deep and always clashing with other low end stuff like bass. My songs have too many instruments (problem one) so I'm mostly interested in 'busy' music. Beat Happening isn't really what I'm looking for if that makes any sense. (I <3 beat happening)

I?m attached to the sound of dub bass (problem two) but realize that sound doesn?t always sit well in a busy mix ? particularly with vocals that are deep like mine. But if it?s out there, I wanna hear it.

Thanks,
Will

[Brian Brock]

How about Smog, is Bill Callahan deep enough? Some of his records are busier, like Supper and Knock Knock (which is his best).

You could try Lee Hazelwood too, he's big with the hipsters and has a low voice. You could check out the collection of duets with Nancy Sinatra.
b

[;ivlunsdystf]

Skip Spence "Oar".

Richard Buckner. I especially recommend the "Since" album.

Greg Brown.

Small dia condensers work well with bari voices.

[hammertime]

Check out the Temptations, Psychedelic Shack or Puzzle People, for really awesome singing throughout the whole range, but the dude who sings bass is the absolute king. The music's kind of corny, but the Statler Brothers (the country band that toured with J. Cash a bunch of times), had a pretty good bass singer. You might check out some old country records if you're really into this, more than rock, where you aren't going to find a whole lot of good singers. The dude who sang bass on Johnny Paycheck's Save Your Heart for Me (off of Meet my Family, which is hard to find), was pretty awesome, although I can't remember his name.

[jamoo]

Sorry that I don't know Beat Happening. < 3 ?

Anyway, Peter Murphy has a deep voice.

Some of his solo material is rather 'electronic'.

[Autodidact]

Don't You Just Know It - Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns

[bentonevolution]

Ladybug Transistor. Anything off of the Self-Titled record should do you fine.

[;ivlunsdystf]

Oh, then of course there's Magnetic Fields

[cgarges]

How about the "Oom Papa Mow-Mow" guy from the Oak Ridge Boys? Or that dude in Sha Na Na? What was his name? Bowser? Mowser?

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

[kingnimrod]

mid to late period Leonard Cohen is kickass for low voice singing (I love his first stuff too) - sometimes you just have to navigate around the cheese-ass synth horns and skinemax backup singers.

and how about Nick Cave - the Good Son album is particularly good for deep voice.

and don't forget Captain Beefheart - he had quite a range - real gravelly lows.

I'll add another vote for Skip Spence

and let us not forget Michael Gira, interviewed in the latest Tape-Op

[syrupcore]

wow! you guys rule. I have a lot to check out.

I've been asking friends too and have a little list together that I'll add for the sake of the search in the morning.

Thanks a lot!
Will

[philbo]

Counting Crows - another group with some great low baritone vocals.
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[nystrec]

Tom waits, Joy Division, Nick Cave, Johnny cash... I could go on and on

[darjama]

morphine, mark sandman's voice is on the lower side. Instrumentation is sparse, but is bass and baritone sax, there's a lot of low end going on.

[syrupcore]

andre williams, lee hazelwood, dead can dance, jesus + mary chain, paul robeson, sisters of mercy and crash test dummies were some other suggestions

Thanks again everyone. Now if I could just learn to arrange, sing and mix I should be in good shape.

will


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