Hank Williams
Chuck Berry
Bob Dylan
John Fogerty
Paul Simon
Stevie Wonder
Carole King
Randy Newman
Bruce Springsteen
Tom Petty
That's my list for popular music. For me, Randy Newman comes in just before James Taylor. Joni Mitchell and Neil Young are ineligible, since they were both born in Canada. I would have to make another list for jazz (Monk, Ellington, Shorter, etc.), and Broadway (Gershwin, Rogers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, etc.).
Chuck Berry
Bob Dylan
John Fogerty
Paul Simon
Stevie Wonder
Carole King
Randy Newman
Bruce Springsteen
Tom Petty
That's my list for popular music. For me, Randy Newman comes in just before James Taylor. Joni Mitchell and Neil Young are ineligible, since they were both born in Canada. I would have to make another list for jazz (Monk, Ellington, Shorter, etc.), and Broadway (Gershwin, Rogers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, etc.).