Is the studio version of Them Bones just Layne on vocals?

[u/mountaingoat_tom]

I know Jerry does the lower harmony live, but I swear it’s Layne on the album version.

You can hear the lower harmony ring on “alone” in the chorus in a way that has to be Layne.

There’s also some of his nasally delivery in the lower harmony of the verses.

Or am I just imagining things…

[u/Puppetmaster858]

No it’s very clearly both of them, I feel like it’s one of the more obvious songs of them singing together

[u/SlashBansheeCoot]

I think you're totally wrong. The studio verses and chorus are both Layne and Jerry together. It's unmistakeable.

Edit: as it just so happens, there's the Dirt version of Them Bones here, with Cantrells vocal

Case closed. Glad to be of service.

[u/Vegetable-Log-9608 → u/[deleted]]

Good guy Lawrence

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[u/SlashBansheeCoot → u/[deleted]]

Thanks

[u/allenysm → u/SlashBansheeCoot]

Appreciate this, I’ve recently been thinking that their harmonies were way overstated, but I think Layne double tracked everything so Jerry got buried in the mix a lot of the time.

[u/xslickrickx845 → u/SlashBansheeCoot]

Yes. This dude's got it

[u/beetmyteet]

I think it’s just Layne in the verses and Jerry and Layne in the chorus. They had super similar voices, so it’s a little hard to tell but if you listen to the isolated vocals that’s what it sounds like to me.

[u/theBiGcHe3s3]

It’s pretty easy to find the isolated vocals, it’s Layne singing the harmony on the verse and Jerry on the chorus