Top ten American composers/songwriters


Foster
Sousa
Joplin
Gershwin 
Copland
Jimmie Rodgers
Ellington
Richard Rodgers
Dylan
Porter

I constantly revisit this topic listening and reading. Thoughts?

jpwarren58
Paul Simon
Tom Petty
James Taylor
Carol King
Barry Manolo
Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen
Tod Rundgren
Greg Allman
Paul Simon
Alan Hovhaness
Joni Mitchell
Ferde Grofé
J.P. Sousa
Woody Guthrie
Huddie Ledbetter
Louis Armstrong

Keep ’em coming. A lot of quality names. Leonard Cohen, however, is a Canadian. Ahem...  But Joni can be counted in because she abandoned Canada for New York and then L.A.
Foster, as in David Foster......he’s a Canadian also.  Perhaps the OP meant North American
A lot of the greats already listed. I’ll add Brian Wilson, Chuck Berry, Dave Bartholomew, Pomus/Shuman, Leiber/Stoller, Willie Dixon, Buddy Holly, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Randy Newman, Jackson Browne, Iris Dement, John Hiatt, Rodney Crowell, Felice & Boudleaux Bryant, Goffin/King, Greenwich/Barry, Mann/Weil, and Holland/Dozier/Holland (writers of the sublime "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted").