Jimmy Reed was a highly influential blues musician in the 1950s and 1960s, known for his unique and distinctive style. To learn to sing like Jimmy Reed, it's important to understand his signature vocal techniques, which include a relaxed, conversational style, a simple and sincere approach to phrasing, as well as his expressive and emotional vibrato.

To start off, it's important to properly warm up your voice before singing, and Singing Carrots offers a variety of resources for this, including the Farinelli Breathing exercise and the 3 Minute Warm Up video. It's also important to develop good posture to achieve optimal vocalization, and Singing Carrots' article on how posture affects your singing provides valuable tips on how to perfect your posture while singing.

When practicing your singing, it's important to open your mouth and throat, which ensures both proper breathing and resonance. Singing Carrots offers an article on why to open your mouth and throat while singing, which provides valuable insight and tips.

From there, it's important to work on developing your voice registers, as Jimmy Reed utilized a mixture of chest voice and falsetto, which allowed for a unique and expressive vocal style. Singing Carrots offers several helpful videos to this effect, including "Singing Comfort Zone" and "Chest Voice Explained."

In terms of Jimmy Reed's vocal style, he was known for his use of vibrato, which can be practiced using the Singing Carrots' video "Beggars Bounce" and "Diaphragm Bounce." Additionally, Jimmy Reed incorporated a lot of emotion into his singing, and his nuanced phrasing and use of dynamics helped him to convey deep feeling in his performances.

A great way to start practicing these techniques is through Singing Carrots' Pitch Training exercise, which offers a range of warm-ups, pitch visualization, and exercises for range and agility. Additionally, the Songbook tool allows you to find songs and sheet music that match your vocal range, difficulty, and genre preference, so you can practice your skills with the songs that Jimmy Reed is known for.

To further develop your personal singing style, it's important to explore different contemporary vocal techniques and styles. Singing Carrots offers detailed insights into various contemporary vocal techniques such as Heavy Modal, Twang, Belting, Vocal Distortion, and Growling through the article "Contemporary vocal techniques: Heavy modal, Twang, Belting" as well as tips on how to find your own authentic voice through the article "How to find your own authentic voice."

By practicing these techniques and utilizing the resources offered through Singing Carrots, singers can learn to emulate Jimmy Reed's signature vocal style, while also developing their own unique approach to singing and performing.