David Berthy Guest Posts Today

Howard Tate’s falsetto is one of my favorite sounds in soul music. The best thing about it is, despite its power, Mr. Tate never overuses it. He saves it in reserve, and then, just when you think one of his tracks can’t get any better, he unleashes it with a kind of precisely controlled fury. Before you know what happened, the sound is gone and you’re wondering what you just heard and when you can hear it again. The more you listen, the more his songs are defined by these perfect moments. He’s just a great singer. I picked this song because it has a nice reggae mix. You hear a lot of reggae artists doing soul songs (The studio one soul record is a nice one, especially for summer) but you don’t hear soul artists doing a lot of reggae treatments, so this has a unique sound, I think.

Hold me Tight by Howard Tate