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
edcyn,

"Leonard Cohen, however, is a Canadian. Ahem... But Joni can be counted in because she abandoned Canada for New York and then L.A."
That is, more or less, what Leonard Cohen did, too. With a few stops in between.
Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen 
Tom Waites
Paul Simon
Miles Davis
Tom Petty
Roy Orbison
Robert Hunter
Allen Toussaint 
Rogers & Hamerstein
Willie Nelson needs to be on my list so as hard as it is for me , I'll take AT off
Oops, left out Lucinda Williams, Marshall Crenshaw, Dwight Twilley, Jordan/Wilson (The Flamin' Groovies), Difford & Tillbrook (Squeeze), Nick Lowe. And Johnny Cash, fer cryin' out loud!