BIG FROG 104 » dialect http://bigfrog104.com The Best And Most Country Thu, 23 May 2013 09:31:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Why Do Country Singers Sing With Accents But Not Pop/Rock Singers? http://bigfrog104.com/why-do-country-singers-sing-with-accents-but-not-poprock-singers/ http://bigfrog104.com/why-do-country-singers-sing-with-accents-but-not-poprock-singers/#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:09:07 +0000 Keith James http://bigfrog104.com/why-do-country-singers-sing-with-accents-but-not-poprock-singers/ If you listen to Bono, Eric Clapton or any other European artist in an interview, they have a thick accent that just magically disappears when they sing... How come Chris Young, Josh Turner, Scotty McCreery and others still have that Southern twang no matter if they're speaking or singing? And how do you explain the disappearing accent anyway?

As a vocalist and instructor I can speak from experience with this one… It all comes down to vowels

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