Anyone remember The Proclaimers and "500 Hundred Miles"? That was sung with a pretty heavy Scottish accent. On the flip side, Wet Wet Wet's Marti Pellow sang like the best of Motown.
If you can understand the heavy Cockney of somethin' like Ian Dury and The Blockheads, the other stuff will get easier. Well, there might be some Scottish groups that are a bit of a tease...
Don't forget Marianne Faithfull - B rok en ENGLISH
now what dialect did Sir Douglas Quintet use?
Watching some of the Scorcese Blues, and noticing that the producers think the old time American blues performers require subtitles for their songs :frowning: