Your favourite north-americain songwriter

Alucard wrote: Sean Trane wrote:   Neil Young (my Canadian past life spoke), since you chose the wrong Buckley!!!! How could you choose the son over the father! Not that the son was bad , either, but: Tim rather than Jeff!!!!!   You might also have mentioned Tom Rapp (Pearls Before Swine) Lots of Songwriters missing, I love Jeff  Buckley! There was a lot of hipe when he died but he was a truly gifted musician/songwriter and ...I don't know his father's records. If I remember well Tim Buckley's  first record was produced by Zappa, but I never heard it.

If you are a proghead (and I believe you are since you've been hanging around for a while now), you will appreciate much more the Happy/Sad (my fave) and Lorca albums: Fusion folk/jazz/rock.

A lot of fans appreciate most Starsailor, but I find it a bit too much (over the top). Most folkies will choose Goodbye And Hello - quite fine also.

among the later work (before his overdose death) is the impeccable but much funkier Greetings From LA

Among the live albums : Live in London , Morning glory and Dream letter

Neil Young and Joni Mitchell win hands down. I've never been able to get into Springsteen, and others in the list bore me after a while. Still, they're great musicians, even if my tastes are a bit different.

Kerry Livgren.