He is a great singer, but he just doesn’t have the right voice (though he tries). To sing this correctly you need to have smoked two packs a day for 40 years, or at least worked in a real coal mine for that long.
I feel similarly about Amazing grace - it should never be sung in church (except maybe as a solo) because most people in church have been going all their life and while not perfect don’t have the awful background in sin to be believable.
I’ve never heard one that is fully convincing. I know there are some real coal miners who sing songs like this, but I’ve never heard one.
I like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzlT80jQ3lo but I’m not sure that better is the correct way to describe it. (this is the Geoff Castellucci version that someone else already linked)
He is a great singer, but he just doesn’t have the right voice (though he tries). To sing this correctly you need to have smoked two packs a day for 40 years, or at least worked in a real coal mine for that long.
I feel similarly about Amazing grace - it should never be sung in church (except maybe as a solo) because most people in church have been going all their life and while not perfect don’t have the awful background in sin to be believable.
What’s a better version?
I’ve never heard one that is fully convincing. I know there are some real coal miners who sing songs like this, but I’ve never heard one.
I like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzlT80jQ3lo but I’m not sure that better is the correct way to describe it. (this is the Geoff Castellucci version that someone else already linked)