Re: God help me. This is what happens when guitarists have to sing.
Crikey !! That's great !!
I've seen a lot of jazz bands where sometimes one of the band members will sing a standard because ... well ... ya know ... an audience can only take so much instrumental stuff, eventually they wanna hear someone sing so they can relate better .... and almost every time i've seen that happen, i've thought "the voice isn't strong enough to get on top, they shouldn't have done it".
But your voice sounds strong and confident and sits on top of the music the way a singer should ... it sounds like a singer with a backing band, not a band with one of the members kinda 'singing along' half-heartedly. If, as you say, it's a kind of 'fake' voice, it doesn't really sound like it ... it's better than many supposedly 'proper' vocalists who hold down singing gigs.
It kinda reminded me a little of Vince Jones when he was prominent in the 1990s or whenever it was. Got a bit of that smoky swing going on. Thanks for sharing, a really pleasant surprise. Gonna play it again.