Bill Powers

Deeply thoughtful and illuminating, DRAWING A LIFE reveals the details of artist Geoff McFetridge’s life and work while delving further into the universal questions of what makes a fulfilling life and how to live with intention in the limited time we all have.

Bill Powers, who covers William H. Gardner's "Can't Yo Heah Me Callin'," has a nice baritone and chooses to go easy on the dialect-heavy stuff (as much as one can; the song was a hit in 1914, an era of not just common but GLEEFULLY common dialect songs). The Brown Sisters do "Underneath the Harlem Moon," which is of later vintage (1932) and solidly in the hi-de-ho tradition.