6/25/11 A singer mismatched to the song

This is a beautiful thing, it's like the tritone--you hear it and you know it's meant to be in the universe, but it goes against all the rules and makes your ears go yowee!! Someone with a really smooth and sweet voice trying to sing the blues, like Jewel singing Have a Little Faith in Me (or Beyonce attempting Etta James), or someone with a really rough voice and a lot of life experience expressing sweetness. It's a challenge to our (the listener)s' powers of perception. What do you hear in the honey. What longings spill out with the gravel? Who are we and what are we trying to say?