You know who sounds like a saxaphone with lips? Chet Baker, is who.
No cowgirl is also a wild woman? That's counter-intuitive. Perhaps they only get the blues qua cowgirl, but not in the facets of their personality which are wild women.
Wait, don't turn the page. I'm not finished.
... That wouldn't make me a shallow person, would it?
Francine Reed is a GENIUS. You have to listen to her on Lyle Lovett's Live in Texas album. She's amazing. Simply amazing.
That's where the clip comes from, Moira.
In that clip, she sounds like she's singing into a fan.
You see? Such is my love of Francine that I, uh, don't bother to watch the clip. (It was too early to go audiovisual! Too early in the morning for video!!)
While Ray Nance's violin on Duke Ellington's "Come Sunday" comes close to emoting the same quality that Mahalia Jackson brings to the original, his name isn't like hers in the slightest.