If Bob Dylan is the greatest singer/songwriter of all time, then who is number 2?
I was going to do a poll but I feared it might set off a #CoSoWar
Here are some possibilities:
Joni Mitchell
Neil Young
Dolly Parton
Bruce Springsteen
Taylor Swift
James Taylor
Carole King
Add your own pick in a comment. I’m curious to see what you come up with.
Note this is singer/songwriter - so I didn’t include Lennon/McCartney, Jagger/Richards, etc.
#CoSoMusic
@jeffdavenport it's interesting that you include Swift and leave so many others out
I have no answers for greatest/best of/top favorites lists
@tgraph52 To make a list like this is difficult. I can think of a bunch that I left out, but I’m just curious about the opinion of others.
There is a consensus on Dylan, but no consensus on others.
@jeffdavenport
there's not even a consensus on the list of others😀 😀 😀
@tgraph52 There is not! I think about this where do you include Tom Petty, Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn?
Too many great ones to even consider!
@jeffdavenport Tom Petty was the first name I thought of in this regard. Your dealing with impossible tasks. 🎶
@tgraph52 My goal was to find some new musical artists! It’s working! 🤓
@jeffdavenport I miss the days when we had radio stations that were about the music... where you would be presented with artists that were new to you and you might follow a DJ who either had similar taste, or was bold in their push of new music. Even the old days of AM radio fighting it out for listeners, thru top 10 lists and contests was fun. [Disclaimer: I won a 45 on a phone contest one night.] The democratization of music on the internet has had some serious negative impacts, in my view.
@tgraph52 I grew up in the 70’s in East TN. AM radio was top 40. FM was AOR. @s3friedman - you’re right about radio in that time.
The best thing in the 70’s was at night - tuning into the 50,000 watt am stations from Nashville, New Orleans, Texas and sometimes Chicago or Memphis. It felt like my own little secret.
I was exposed to every genre of music and have loved it all ever since!
@jeffdavenport @tgraph52--That's great stuff. In NY area at night we could listen to WBBM in Chicago or the late Jack Buck calling Cardinals games on KMOX. There were a few stations from Cleveland, Detroit & Cincinnati. I remember being in South Florida in the early 1980s and listening to WCBS-AM from NYC. Today, that entire experience is now an anachronism. Happy Thanksgiving.