Favorite lyricists and why.

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ditto....

the duritz post, i have always dug their stuff these post are always good for 2 things 1 making people mad about someone else's opinion and 2 i always go "man how could i have forgotten that one " .....peace out
 
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This may sound egotistical but my answer is:

ME

If it wasn't I wouldn't be doing it, I'd be listening to someone else.

My influences and people I admire are Dylan, Lennon, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Woody Guthrie, Robert Hunter, John Cougar, and so on....
 
Fav Lyricists

I like Lowell George from Little Feat, Ian Gillan from Deep Purple (specifically the Fireball album), Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull, Felix Papalardi from Mountain and for some reason I always loved Ronnie Van Zant from Lynyrd Skynyrd (listen to The Ballad of Curtis Low). For Little Feat, you must listen to Fatman in the Bathtub, Dixie Chicken, Sailin' Shoes, Trouble, Mercenary Territory and a Cold, Cold, Cold and you'll know what I mean.

Bill L
 
Ronnie Van Zant!!! Wow, how did that one get overlooked till now? Wish I'd listed that one. The man could really spin a story in a song. It was never just words put togeather to sound deep, but really didn't mean anything at all...(i.e. Plant, Macartney, Dave Mathews, that bitch from the Pretenders that never rhymes or makes any sence, half the bands from the 70's, and most of the bands today).
I also have to add to my list...Bruce Springstien. I'm not a big fan, but I liked some of the stuff he was doing in the 80's. However his lyrics have always been good and from the heart.
 
van zant .....

yeah man how could we have forgotten 37 year old here who is experienceing a rebirth of Skynyrd and it completely slipped my mind ...read an article the other day that was talking about how they've been overlooked by the rock and roll hall of fame ,and how it was all probably because of certain items(rebel flag)that they used ,if is a big word ,but, who can say what more he had to say or the status that Steve Gaines could have achieved i mean this guy only made like 2 albums with them and one was a live one guitar as we know it would have been way different ....and on a side note any other southern rockers out there need to check out Drive By Truckers -southern rock opera it's definately an album worth listening to....peace out
 
I know music comes and goes in stages, and at this point NOTHING is really new...just done to a new extreme. However, I kinda believe that southern rock will never happen again. I think it has spilled over, and become country. Was riding in the car with my father the other day (he is 63, I am 39), and Sweet Home Alabama comes on his country station he listens to (all he has ever listened to was country). Well, he starts tapping his foot and singing along. I had to yell at him and tell him this was the "shit" he use to tell me to turn down when I was a kid!
I don't really play southern rock, but always like it. Got to play with Molly Hatchet, and 38 special once each...that was pretty cool. Shit kickin' nights they were.
 
Deep Purple

Hey Toker,
I agree that it was the hammond and drums (in my opinion anyway) that drove Purple (did I just leave Ritchie Blackmore out?), but I was reffering to the Fireball album. Listen to Anyone's Daughter, Fools and No One Came and you'll know what I mean. And just in case you guys haven't heard any Little Feat or Lowell George, do yourself a favor and get Waiting For Columbus. One of the best live albums ever IMNHO!

Bill L
 
i have only seen him mentioned once in this post and he is one of the true greats

wordsmith to the Nth degree

joe strummer
 
Tell me why oh why no one mentioned the greatest song writter of all time,

David J. Matthews
 
Who:
Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and Ralph Covert of The Bad Examples.

Why:
Working man's poets effortlessly spinning the obvious on the head of a pin.

Great thread
 
OK... I wan't gunna put these up. Maily because I doubt many of you would appreciate (as in like) the genre:

Western (Not to be mistaken for "Country")

Marty Robins
Billy Walker
Jim Reeves

- Tanlith -
 
Bob Dylan-If not just for "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.....that song gets me everytime.

Greg Brown-A verse from "The Poet Game":
"I had a friend who drank too much
and played too much guitar -
and we sure got along.
Reel-to-reels rolled across
the country near and far
with letters poems and songs..
but these days he don't talk to me
and he won't tell me why.
I miss him every time i say his name.
I don't know what he's doing
or why our friendship died
while we played the poet game."

Ani Difranco (am I the first with her?!) A verse from "Your Next Bold Move:
you want to track each trickle
back to its source
and then scream up the faucet
'til your face is hoarse
cuz you're surrounded by a world's worth
of things you just can't excuse

Other notables: Cheryl Wheeler, John Wesley Harding, Tom Waits, Patty Griffin, Nanci Griffith, and so many more.
 
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