My uneducated theory is that there is a continuous tradition of great growling voices in the chronological order as in the thread title, every successor of Patton out-pattoning the other.
Have I missed somebody in that line?
I got wooshed. Didn’t Patton have a high(er) pitched voice? He was definately not a bass.
Are you thinking of George C Scott’s Patton?
I don’t think anybody really ever out-anythinged Howlin’ Wolf, but that’s an interesting lineague and it looks accurate to me.
I don’t really know his music, but based on the YouTube samples I’m listening to, I’d say he might’ve been a bass-baritone and his voice is gravelly enough to belong on that list. Especially if he’s considered a big influence on Howlin’ Wolf, which I gather he is.
Shake It and Break It (you can hear him best on this one)
Spoonful Blues
Pony Blues
Nah, that’s not gravelly, just low-pitched.
Did you listen to the video? The screaming is pretty gravelly.
For that matter, Tom Waits wasn’t very gravelly when he started out.
Gravelly. What’s wrong with Joe Cocker?
Here’s a link to a speech George Patton gave in L.A. in 1945. No gravel.+
Oh. I was all set to point out that Mike Patton’s voice isn’t gravelly unless he’s doing the growling thing.