[willy]

What country singers used to sound like?
Wow.
Jim Reeves
Patsy Kline
Willie Nelson
Emmylou Harris
Mickey Gilly
Crystal Gayle
Tammy Wynette
Johnny Cash

Just a few of my favs off the top of my head, there have actually been a great many country singers who could really sing, Willie sounds a little rough the past 8-10 years but he used to sing pretty well, evil weed demon and age got to him.
I am someone who grew up listening to several who really could not sing for sh!t, Bob Dillon for one or Tom Petty for example
But I actually feel some should stick to song writing or playing an instrument cause they just can't sing a lick

Part of what I don't like about 90% of the past decades music is they just can't sing. The average band of the sixties and seventies for example had lead singers who could really sing, take Gary Pucket and the Union Gap as a prime example. Jay black and the Americans. Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge.
I have come to appreciate more the really good voices to listen to, there are a lot of them out there, new and old.