Josh Turner

What a guy.



Range: G1-G4(-E♭5)
Voice Type: Bass
Best Display of Range: "Backwoods Boys" live (A1-F#4)

Significant High Notes

• G4 ("So Not My Baby", "Friday Pay Check")
  
• F♯4 ("Backwoods Boys")
  
• F4 ("Friday Pay Check")
  
• E4 ("Loretta's Lynn Lincoln", "Eye Candy")
  
• D4 ("Eye Candy", "Would You Go With Me")
  
  Significant Low Notes
  
• E♭2 ("Would You Go With Me", "Haywire", "This Kind of Love")
  
• D2 ("Would You Go With Me", "Everything Is Fine", "Backwoods Boys", "I Wouldn't Be a Man", "Haywire", "I'll Be There", "The Answer")
  
• C2 ("Backwoods Boys", "One Woman Man", "You Don't Mess With Jim," "I Wouldn't Be a Man", "Way Down South", "Your Smile")
  
• B1 ("Firecracker", "Softly and Tenderly", "Haywire")
  
• A1 ("King of the Road" live, "Backwoods Boys" live)
  
• G1 ("King of the Road" live)
  

Cool voice on this guy. Some people might take umbrage at your calling him a bass instead of a "low baritone" though. Personally I don't see why low baritone ever replaced bass as a voice classification here.

Curiosity wrote:Personally I don't see why low baritone ever replaced bass as a voice classification here.

We have our disagreements, but this isn't one of them.

Agreed ^

Why is the "Soft & Tenderly" B1 so great

I see a difference between low baritones and true basses. I may be nitpicking though.

I don't get why this forum differentiates between, for example, standard baritones and low baritones but not between low baritones and basses.

Yeah, I'd say somebody like Cash or maybe even Zappa is LB. Although if there is an LB category, we'd have to decide which SBs to move there. Because there's no way there's more true basses than LBs.

But if anyone wants to work on some sort of realignment of the voice types, let me know.

The only ones I'd say are true basses are Turner, Sumner, Gibbons, and White. Could be wrong.

White?

True Bass sounds so elitist I think that LB/Bass can be interchangeable the same way HB/LT are.

I dunno, I think there's a fair bit of difference between, say, Axl's voice and this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beGecpjR_Cc

Sherick wrote:The only ones I'd say are true basses are Turner, Sumner, Gibbons, and White. Could be wrong.

If anyone in the Index other than Sumner is a bass, Warrel Dane is a bass, IMO.

EDIT: Not to say he's the second-most bassy, but just that the difference between Warrel and any of the other guys is small enough that it doesn't constitue a different voice type.

No, Dane isn't a bass. Like I said, I can really only see those four as being basses, rather than LB.

I feel like people are getting too mixed up in just the names that we call some of these guys. We originally had "bass" counted as a voice type, but after a certain point, it started to seem ridiculous to have it split between "high basses", "standard basses" and "low basses", when there were so few on each list, and in reality, there wasn't much of a difference between them and some of the "low baritones" at the time (though some of those "low baritones" actually turned out to be standard baritones). To an extent, I can understand why some people might be inclined to count it as a different voice type, but if so, I'd say it counts more as a low end extremity than anything. No need for "high basses", "standard basses", and "low basses"...just one class for them: "basses". However, if we're gonna split hairs enough to count that, it probably makes just as much sense to count "countertenors" as some sort of extremity for high male voices, so...whoever takes on the project of reorganizing all that, good luck, and take all that into consideration.

To some degree, though, I feel like people are getting upset about it just because it's so non-traditional: everyone is so used to seeing "tenor", "baritone", and "bass" as three different kinds that it doesn't seem right to them to have basses lumped in with baritones and referred to as "low baritones" for the purposes of consistency.

I've never thought of basses in a trificated way like the others. Bass is bass, like you said, it's the low extremity. You could get technical about contrabasses and junk like that but yeah, its too small a field for us. As I said, maybe only four people in our index would qualify, and I don't really want to try and divide them into subcategories.

For what we do, the distinction isn't necessary, but there's nothing wrong with pointing out the guys who actually are basses.