This is a wonderful old Gospel song which was originally done by Roy Acuff and his Dobro Player Brother Ozwald calle Great Speckled Bird! This song is the one which put Roy Acuff on the Grande Ole Opry. This is done by myself and Tommy, my oldest son on backup guitar on the Martin Live . I am doing the Dobro and singing and this is Recorded “Live at the Homeplace”

So, ive recently wanted to do something interesting with my life and stuff.
Ive wanted to learn guitar but my parents wont pay for lessons, so ive turned to trying to learn to sing. A few questions:

-What are some good slow songs to sing??
-Any tips for singing??

I can’t sing high notes very well and im not a confident singer, so any tips would be much appreciated.

Much love <3 xxx

umm, hi guys
just to start, im brad.
im 15, and for part of my gcse coursework i was asked to write an essay on ‘a view from a bridge’ however i was absent for the majority of my english lessons due to guitar lessons. im pretty much screwed at the moment, because nothing on the essay plan i was given makes any sense, and i have no notes i can use to help me due to not being in the lessons.

i was wondering if there was anyone on the yahoo answers community that knows the play well who wouldnt mind me asking them a few questions about the play and its characters, just so i can get a few things sorted before i attempt this essay?

thankyou so much in advance.
brad

Let me put my cards on the table and say that I couldn’t stand her. That harsh, screeching voice sets my teeth on edge. Her version of I Will Always Love You remains the worst thing I have ever heard. The way she warbles away aimlessly at the end of the song fills me with the urge to kill. My mum is worse. She feels physically sick whenever WH or any of her many imitators appear on the radio and has to turn it off. For my mum, this is just bad, out-of-tune screeching.
But is that a generational thing?
I grew up in the punk/new wave era where singers valued expression over technique and went for a pretty straightforward approach to singing a song. Whitney was famously related to Dionne Warwick, but she actually sings nothing like her. DW has a light, melodic approach to songs which Whitney could never manage. Instead, she made a virtue of her weaknesses. Unable to hit notes true, she took to bending them and singing around them. She also bellowed and used plenty of heavy breathing to denote emotion. The result is the vocal equivalent of a Steve Vai guitar solo – complex, bewildering and unmelodic, but deeply admired by those in the know.
After Whitney came Mariah Carey and a host of X-factor wannabes. Now, that sort of whale-lunged vocalism is considered not just normal, but desirable. So, was Whitney’s achievement to change the way a generation viewed music so that the likes of my poor mum feel like throwing up whenever they switch the radio on? And, if so, what will her legacy be if, and when, tastes change?