I cold listen to Mr. Foote read a phone book. Loved his voice.
For some reason, the audiobook version of Foote's masterpiece three volume narrative did not have the author narrate, but used a guy with a pronounced northern accent instead!
I really wanted to listen to the audiobook during my morning commute with my son (we have listened to some great works over the years like The Illiad, The Odyssey, and more recently Hillbilly Elegy). The grating Yankee voice, however, made that impossible!
Yes that will Southern gentlemanly drawl.