Your favorite male soul voices

Gil Scott Heron, a beautiful cat who had as much soul as anyone.

Nat King Cole.

Sinatra has no peer, as well as Mel Torme.  I love Chet Baker, too.   But my favorite male vocalist is Bobby Scott, who never sounded better than one of his later recordings, "Slowly."      

That happens to me occasionally too; I post on the wrong thread. I like Frank and Mel, but they're not what you would call "soul vocalist", neither is Chet Baker, but maybe Bobby Scott falls in that category; I'll have to check him out.

Listening to Traffic now so another vote for Steve Winwood.....from the time he was 16 years old!

But when I consider all of these I keep coming back to Sam Cooke. There is so much depth, richness, smoothness and ease. 

And I think one of his best is Bring It On Home to Me with Lou Rawls singing back up. The timing and interaction between them is incredible.

John Boutte