These guys have real blues feeling. The song, of course, is "Deep River Blues," and the guitarist, Chris Lancry, is singing in French. He makes it work!
Chris was touring A LOT with Jean Jacques Milteau during more than 15 years, with a theme show called "the story of the blues" playing many standards and joking a lot about things (making the show) played.
Chris and Jean Jacques stopped to work together when JJ Milteau decided to play with Manu Galvin
Chris is a genuine blues lover and he has terrific voice...I'm not sure about his harp playing now, even if in the 90's I was a complete fan of his tremolo _________________________________________
Daughter of Hannibal Lecter, also known as "Christelle Berthon"
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Whats great about this video is that it goes some way to answering the concerns and worries expressed by people regards their own singing voice - the ever popular 'can a white man sing the blues?' question.
This video suggests the answer is YES - and it doesn't matter about accent or even language. As kudzurunner says, it has a 'real blues feeling'. Now if I could only define that 'feeling' for myself then I'd be half-way to my own goals!
I have ti hijack this thread and fill in about singing blues in other languages than American English. This example from sweden. It's "Sky is cryin'" translated to Swedish. I think it works...
