Looking For A Certain Sound...

[Tessar]

Can anyone help me out?

I'm looking for some music with a certain sound, and I just can't find it.

Basically I'm looking for a singer, preferably male, who has kind of a bluesy/gravelly voice that's lower (i.e. not the usual tenor sound), and does that kind of blues-rock music where it has some southern sounds, but it's definitely NOT southern/country music.


I'm looking for someone who sounds a bit like Rob Thomas, or Gavin Degraw (specifically on the song In Love With A Girl, where he uses a more gritty sound), or KT Tunestall on "Big Black Horse and a Cherry Tree" or whatever it's called. Josh Kelley is also sort of close to what I want, but he doesn't do the grit thing very often.