Top ten songwriters....today...

[Trailer Star Records]

Ok off top of my head and in no order....

Micky Newbury
Townes Van Zandt
Guy Clark
Lucinda Williams
Johnny Dowd
Bobbie Gentry
Johnny Cash
Bob Dylan
Loudon Wainwright III
Jim White

[Ian Lang]

Eric Taylor..........Nancy Dillon......phew.......et al

[Trailer Star Records]

That was then now...

Ry Cooder, Robert Zimmerman, Robert Coleman Trussell, Steve Roberts, Ron Sexsmith, John Cale, Dylan Thomas,

Kurt Wagner and Vic Chesnutt....etc etc

[Ian Lang]

Ry is a real long shot mister ! Think Nick Lowe gets higher than him !

[Ian Lang]

Bobbie Gentry ?

[Trailer Star Records]

Cooder's last few discs been excellent was listening to I Flathead when wrote list

Gentry...genius...up there in my opinion with Newbury

add John Hiatt twice over..Gene Clark too

[Torchy Blaine]

Nobody asked me --- but nonetheless, here's mine :

John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Tift Merritt, Nick Lowe, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Gram Parsons (I'm biased, I know...), Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie

[Trailer Star Records]

cool everybody can add ..it's a free house:-)

Tim Hardin, Elgar...

[AFcollective]

Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Johnny Cash, Neil Young Martin Stephenson
and the new youngbloods, you may not have heard of yet!
Steph Macleod, Chris Barrett (Pookah) Phillip Hartley, Carleko,

[Gina Villalobos]

i think a few really important writers were left off this list:
rayn adams willie nelson and jeff tweedy

[Andy Young]

Hi , these are also off the top of my head but with a little bit of thought also ,but it's such a moveable feast!

How about... David Olney,Bill Morrissey,Terry Allen,Ray Wylie Hubbard,Tom Pacheco,Butch Hancock,Ian Tyson,Simon Rivers,Tom Russell,Doug Sahm.. for the guys

and... Lucinda williams ,Tish Hinojosa, Neko case, Jo Carol Pierce, Mary Gauthier, Kate Wolf, Terri Hendrix, Rennie Sparks, Nanci Griffiths, Laura Viers ...for the girls

Thats it for today but it would change daily...

[Martha Ann Brooks]

Glad David Olney finally got added to the list !

[Markus Rill]

Townes, Dylan, Springsteen, Steve Earle, James McMurtry, Dave Alvin, Robert Earl Keen, Gillian Welch, Eliza Gilkyson, John Prine, Guy Clark ... that's eleven pretty darn good ones, I think.