Who are the alltime greatest white soul singers?

Steve Marriott
Paul Rodgers
Dusty Springfield
Robert Palmer
Michael McDonald
Daryl Hall
Steve Winwood
Paolo Nutini
Paul Young
Joe Cocker
Van Morrison

 

Jimmy Somerville - Someday We'll Be Together

 

Ex of Marmalade Junior Campbell had a great blue eye soul voice

 

Boy, I can hear it !

 

Boz Skaggs. Daryl Hall. Elvis Presley (How Great Thou Art and From Elvis In Memphis LPs). Joan Osborne. Van Morrison. Joe Cocker. Gregg Allman. Andrew Strong. Mick Hucknall. Bill Medley. Annie Lennox. Tracey Thorn. There just is no shortage of great white soul singers.

 

Eva Cassidy was an immensely talented soul singer, e.g. made evident on her The Other Side (1992) album.

 

No, let him speak ! The world needs laughter now more than ever....
That's not even "blue-eyed" soul. Might be "empty eye-sockets" soul.
If Tony Hadley was/is one of the all-time greatest white soul singers, then Bryan Ferry is one of the world's all-time greatest Inuit throat-singers. In my opinion, of course.

D.D.

 

Maybe not the greatest in terms of sales and publicity, but my personal choice is Southside Johnny (John Lyon).

 

Yep, that Ronnie Milsap.

 

My favorite version of this song.
A Change Is Gonna Come, Three Dog Night

 

Easy, The Magnificent Men

 

Gregg Allman

 

Billy "Crash" Craddock

 

Bob Luman

 

Another vote for Jess Roden here. Incredible voice and much underrated. Listen to his duet with Sandy Denny - Losing Game.

 

Daryl Hall definitely.

 

I can't believe no one; NOT A SOUL has acknowledged Phil Alvin... from me; a resounding yes!

 

Richard Manuel
Leon Russell
Russell Smith
Van the Man
Delbert McClinton
Lowell George
Amy Winehouse
Imelda May
Phoebe Snow

 

wonder what the fans of the chipmunk vocals disco bee gees thought when they first discovered this

 

Steve Winwood
Eric Burdon
Steve Marriott
Van Morrison

 

It's just a pity Otis didn't live to cut this number - I honestly think it might have become his signature tune.

 

Most of the time I find him a tad bit too cloying but Mick Hucknell, can be very good.
"Though he is a bit of ginger."

 

Here is an up-and-coming one. This kid made his first EP Careless Melodies about a year and a half ago at the age of 17. It came out as a mini LP at the end of last year. Who would ever think this is the voice of a 17-year-old? George Van Den Broek, aka Yellow Days. I thought it was a pretty impressive debut for his age. He wrote and produced it himself. White soul indeed.

"Meet Yellow Days, the 17-year-old Haslemere songwriter with a timeless feel, and bags of potential, The project of 17-year-old Haslemere resident George van den Broek was on my radar a few months back, before dropping off as so many promising artists do; some to sign their first deal and return with more polished studio cuts, some to fade back into normal life away from industry humdrum. Yellow Days was never going to do the latter.

Your Hand Holding Mine" remains true to the short string of demos that first caught everyone's attention on his SoundCloud: the skewed, wonky synth lines (inspired by a community of German and Spanish beat makers he follows on SoundCloud), static telly crackling feedback and van den Broek's earthy croon are all present, stark and refreshingly undiluted. It's not that this - his first release on new home Good Years (Mick Jenkins, Lil Silva and early BANKS) - feels bare though, far from it, there's a warm sentimentality to his wordplay, a gloss coat of remarkable emotional intelligence layered over blues guitars and sparsely arranged beats. He explains over email, "What the tune means for me is when your first love ends and once you were sure you'd be together forever, but you're on your own now and the song is written from that point." A boundless young talent with an admiration for timeless vocalists such as Ray Charles and Howlin' Wolf, Yellow Days is in it for the long haul."

 

that's right i read were it was written for him

 

Ray Lamontagne and Van Morrison take the top for me. You have to go Otis, Sam and Dave and Ray Charles to do better.