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That sandpapery voice was undiminished, even as the lump grew in his throat.

He captured Rivers’ essence down to the fit of his dress shirts, his facial expressions and his sandpapery voice.

Born in Philadelphia and educated at Bennington College, Taylor has excelled at playing characters with a certain sandpapery sangfroid.

Drawing on West African griot style, she sings with gritty insistence, building up to a sandpapery rasp when her melodies hit their peaks.

But it did have discernible, if gentle, tannins, felt in its fine sandpapery texture.