Best "white" Soul/Blues singer?

Van Morrison and Steve Winwood

Genya Ravan, Lydia Pense

 

'Back To The Streets: Celebrating The Music Of Don Covay' from 1994 on Shanachie records

 

Dusty should really be getting more love on this thread. She's got my vote.

 

Male-Eric Burdon
Female-Joan Osborne

 

Some folks are focusing too much on "white" and forgetting that "soul/blues" were part of the description.

My picks:

Peter Wolf
Southside Johnny
Graham Parker (with the Rumour)

All these guys had the voices, the attitude, knowledge of the canon, and most importantly, white-hot bands that could play R&B.

 

Curtis Salgado

 

jess roden is one killer singer. james dewar is another whos voice sound so awesome. dusty springfield is great from the female soul contingent. van morrison is wonderful and i'm a big fan but some of his soul stuff is done so fast live its hard to understand what he's saying half the time. darryl hall is also really good back in the day.

 

the one...the only.....

 

There are too many great ones for me to name one. I've seen some of my favorites already listed, so I'll just post one that you may not have heard before.
The great-------- Frankie Miller

 

Phil Alvin of the Blasters deserves honorable mention...

 

hey, isn't that the Cop that arrested M.C. Hammer?

 

Didn't read every reply in this thread, but I saw most of the usual names that came to my mind. So, to be a little controversial, how 'bout Rick Astley? Most of his recorded output was pretty lame but I always thought he had a wonderful, powerful, and yes, soulful voice. Too bad his career wasn't managed a bit better.

 

Thanks Panda

 

As was the case in my earlier post (23) in this thread about Elvis, we sometimes overlook the obvious. "White" Soul has never been sung better than by Timi Yuro. She defined it.