Greatest American Songwriter (1 Viewer)

[Jonesy77]

I'm not putting "other" as an option because that would be ********. If he's not on this list, you don't understand the question.

 

[OhioSaintsFan]

Springsteen but no Mellencamp?

 

[BIG E]

I didn't understand the question.
So, I'm going with whoever wrote baby got back.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Tom Waits - both best songwriter and best music maker

 

[saintsbank]

i always liked Jim Croce.

 

[Broadmoor74]

Willie Nelson and Carole King are better songwriters than Paul Simon.

 

[kansast]

hardly a complete list. Where's Robert Hunter : )

 

[Jonesy77]

Willie Nelson and Carole King are better songwriters than Paul Simon.

objectively false

 

[Broadmoor74]

Ok.

 

[cpg]

No Brian Wilson?

 

[Optimusaint]

i voted Tom Waits because i liked him as the Joker in The Dark Knight

and because his name is the closest to Tacoes.

 

[buzd]

JJ Cale

and

hardly a complete list. Where's Robert Hunter : )

lus-un2:

 

[Jonesy77]

Yes, I could have added more songwriters to the list. But freaking Robert Hunter and JJ Cale should not get any votes over Paul Simon or Bob Dylan. And I don't want to encourage the temptation of someone to vote for some "also ran" just to be different.

The person who deserves to win is somewhere on that list, so there's no need to have other candidates. Heck, Tom Waits probably doesn't belong. i just put him up there to ease the whining.

 

[Broadmoor74]

So we're voting on Jonesy's top 5. Baloney. This pole needs to be flushed down the toilet on the PDQ.

 

[buzd]

But freaking Robert Hunter and JJ Cale should not get any votes over Paul Simon or Bob Dylan.

Right, even though one of them wrote a large portion of the Grateful Dead catalog, and the other wrote songs for and toured with Eric Clapton and who is still frequently covered by other bands today, not mention a song that was adapted perfectly for a certain QB that wears #9.