People with character voices have always done better then one might expect, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, Mellisa Etheridge, Maryanne Faithful - these are people with appeal at a mass market level, and people who don't have truly great singig voices. BUT they offer us a window to their soul, when they sing, and we respond.

Garrison has a similar appeal, as a singer. We love his homey approach to the radio. We respond to his love for the people in his town, a town we've all seen, people we all know, or at least people we canall undertsand. And his singing, well - that is just an extension of his story telling - that is just an extension of his character.

And besides, he does OK.