@Jacki You’re right! I was going to include and got in a hurry!

@jeffdavenport Just thought of Lennon/McCartney too.

@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 @jeffdavenport--I was lucky to grow up during the 70s I'm the NY Metro era. No station did Top 40 better in the early to mid 70s than the old WABC radio. The DJs were legendary. In the later half of the 70s WPLJ-FM was the pulse of R&R. No one can tell me today that music on the radio is better today than it was from the mid 1960s thru the 1970s.

@s3friedman In Mpls in the 60's we had the AM stations KDWB[630] and WDGY[1130] fighting it out... Fun stuff... At night if the clouds were properly aligned I could get WLS from Chicago. They were about a week ahead of us for new music.

In the early 70s things went to FM and KDWB went up against newcomer KQRS with late night
'underground' programming.

I was exposed to so much variety back then.

@tgraph52--I wish my kids had the chance to experience the radio dial in that way. The internet is great, but this part of my youth is a treasured experience.

@s3friedman
I don't get clicking on clip after clip on YouTube on a little phone as your musical upbringing.. But I'm old, tired and wore away.

@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.

@jeffdavenport and Neil Diamond. Not my cuppa, but he wrote tons of songs and not just for himself.

@MookyTroubadour you know what, you’re right about Neil Diamond!

@MookyTroubadour Great additions!

@agitated_trash Damn, you’re right! Unfortunately not prolific, but what there is is great.

@BirdsAreCool Fantastic! Thanks!

@mkrocks @jeffdavenport

very lucky!

@jeffdavenport Had songwriting in mind. Not so much the singing. If both, Sturgill's my man.

@mkrocks @jeffdavenport

A friend went to see Merle Haggard at the MN State Fair, and came away loving the opener, Sturgill, much more. then turned me on to him.