I like this new talent a lot. The way he sings strikes me as raw and naïve, in places a bit like yelling almost like a bird testing its voice and that thought cast me back to the moment I did that myself, discovered my voice can yell. It seems we all discovered the same thing at once on the same day because we were in the back yard screaming at each other at the top of our lungs for no reason at all except to exercise our voices and fully explore how far they can go. Three of us filled with the loudest joy ever. Just screaming.
Without fences our yards connected into one large field, I do not know where, Winston Salem North Carolina or Bedford Virginia, we were spread out in the yard , competing in screaming. The discovery was fantastic. She yelled. "Yaaaaaaah" A neighbor girl, I yelled back, "Yaaaaaah" she screamed, "I-i-i-i-i-i-i-" I screamed, "I-i-i-i-i-i-i-" another kid matched our scream, "I-i-i-i-i-i-i"and we were not to be outdone. We pumped it up to deeper breath, higher-pitched scream, sustained it as long as we could, and it felt glorious, the possibilities endless, we sang like mad angels together we yelled, "Y-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I..."
"CHIP, KNOCK IT OFF! You sound like you're being murdered."
When I hear children doing that, rarely, thank goodness, I know what they're doing, relate to that actually, and I am not bothered by children exercising their voices. Oddly, that is what Jake Bugg reminds me off. In places, howling, making noise.
