For me it’s Neko Case in any of her bands.

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    1 year ago

    Not exactly what you’re asking for, but there’s this thing called “shape note singing.”

    There’s a long story of why it exists, but people still do it, and even though it has roots in religion, and the songs are religious, the groups you find today never perform in a religious capacity.

    Get a buddy and go to one of the meetings. Everybody sits in chairs, in a circle and everybody sings. No instruments, just voices.

    It’s a beautiful, eerie sound which always falls flat in recordings.

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      1 year ago

      I had never heard of shape note singing before, but after reading the Wikipedia article, it seems more like it’s a system of writing music for easy readability by singers rather than a style of singing. Are you just referring to some kind of gospel tradition?