@immatthewj
We are already aquainted through my post on the adverse effects of recording artists and has offered up the best reply so far to this new subject…..A really comprehensive and heartfelt answer to the OP @tomcarr
I am not exactly sure what you are saying there, @mylogic , but what I was intending to convey is that any more it is not so much artists that I cannot live without, but certain CDs. I would probably list in no particular order of preference: Darkness On The Edge Of Town/Springsteen, Blood On The Tracks/Dylan, Trinity Sessions and Whites Off Earth Now/Cowboy Junkies, Simple Dreams/Ronstadt, Excitable Boy/Zevon, Fire And Rain/Jacintha, Running On Empty/Jackson Browne, Cafe Blue and Modern Cool/Barber, Sweet Old World/Lucinda, Train A Coming and I Feel Alright/Earle and probably quite a few more.
But I don’t know that I am any longer obsessed with any artists. .
On edit: I suppose I would add Guitar Town/Steve Earle and possibly The Ghost Of Tom Joad/Springsteen to the cannot live without list. I’d say Born To Run/Springsteen because the song writing is just so great, but the reason I wouldn’t put it on my list is that I do not do vinyl and I just have not found a digital copy that has very good SQ (at least not in my room on my system). I might add The Wild The Innocent And The E-Street Shuffle/Springsteen to my list, simply for the song Incident On 57th Street. At one time Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde/Dylan would have made my cannot live without list, but probably not right now. I think I might add Lucinda’s self titled and her Happy Woman Blues to my cannot live without list, and I will also say that Black Eyed Man/Cowboy Junkies was once on that list, and after further thought, I’d keep it there, but if I could ever find a better SQ digital copy, I'd jump all over it.
