[Signalman]

I notice the same thing with a lot of the young “male” singers. They seem to make an efort to sound like sissies.

It doesn't take much of an effort, on their part, if you get my drift...

[Emmett McCarthy]

Part of that may be just being 18 or 19 and not having “found their own voice” just yet so they try to sound like the guy on the radio/record. I try to get my own 18 year-old aspiring singer/songwriter son out with me to the more basic old time smoky beer drinking dives where men sing like men and testosterone is not considered some kind of contraband. Write songs that tell the truth, stand up by yourself and sing them to a tough crowd. If you can’t do that, you ain’t got it.