The 44-year-old rocker, whose sandpaper voice hasn't lost its Texas twang after 22 years in Los Angeles, still has a lot of the outlaw in him.

Cartwright said with a chuckle over his soft sandpaper voice.

A sandpaper voice said, "Pawnshop."

And Armstrong, with his sandpaper voice, very nearly outsings her, at least in terms of inflection, swing and feeling.

Mostly, however, the boy talks about a benevolent autocrat with a sandpaper voice and a melancholy face.

"I'm unarmed," Reynand said in his small sandpaper voice.

His harsh sandpaper voice was fainter than ever.

So was Vladimir Vysotsky, an actor and balladeer with a sandpaper voice who daringly sang about the underside of Soviet life.

Suddenly, from out of the darkness, two powerful arms seized him in a viselike grip, and a man's sandpaper voice called out: "Here!

"I didn't know what I was supposed to do," the actor was saying, in that sandpaper voice of his that sounds both weary and angry.