"Paul arrived [at the session] and said, 'You know, when you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble, but you weren't.'" Live, Martin employs his holler sparingly, to great effect, and leaves most of the singing to the Steep Canyon Rangers.
Thankfully, Workman's tongue is kept safely in his cheek, without hampering his Jeff Buckley-in-tighollerusers horler or his playful musical palate.
For the first five minutes he is hilarious: clicking his spurs, hollering over his one classic, Paralyzed, with batty gusto, hurling paper plates into the audience.
His great-niece, Dolores Martínez, 46, kneels before his wheelchair and trumpets the questions into his ear, hollering, "Tío!" ("Uncle!") to get his full attention.
With his rusty holler, old-timey leanings and relentless lone-guitar attack, Jack White, above, has established himself over the last five years as the retro-rock bandleader to beat.
In 1962, he taught Paul McCartney his trademark holler, and McCartney repaid the debt with two of the Beatles' most ferocious covers, Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! and Long Tall Sally – the song that closed their last-ever public live show in August 1966.
Hence, when I open the refrigerator door after our power disappears, his immediate holler to "Close it before you let the cold out!" makes sense.
At the end of a three-song encore – in which he conducts the audience's cheers with his fingers and hollers his way through a blistering What Went Down – Philippakis punches himself in the chest repeatedly with his microphone.
He has opened his own agency with his trusty assistant Lloyd Rex Leee) still at his beck and holler, but the new business is rickety and his wife is on his back about the way he keeps dipping into her trust fund to stay afloat.
The Animal celebrated his win by whooping around the hexagon (which is what they call the ring) with a piece of paper in his hand, hollering in a wavering voice that he held the memorial card of his deceased best friend.
His companions hollered for him in vain.
