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walter becker and donald fagen (steely dan)

Paul McCartney..........
and whatever lennons input may have been to the beatles...although their solo careers tells me it was largely McCartney

And a couple more who we lost way too soon,

Stan Rogers
Kate Wolf

But Stan's younger brother, Garnet, ranks right up there, too.

Grant

YOU'RE ALL WRONG!


Merle Haggard
Kris Kristofferson
Jim Croce
(and Willie Nelson)


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Some really fine song writers listed above.

(especially Traditional and Anon)

I'm a big fan of Becker and Fagan myself. But I feel I must add another fine pair:

Elton John and Bernie Taupin


"Levon, Levon likes his money
He makes a lot they say
Spends his days counting
In a garage by the motorway"


Best,

Michael

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[QUOTE=MichaelP] [QUOTE=Colin S] Can I give two names, they are the most popular and commonly played writers in British folk clubs.

Traditional and Anon.

Colin

PS they are the ones that actually wrote Scarborough Fair![/QUOTE]

There seems to be a big to do about Who wrote it. In the litigation going on it has been said that the song in various form actually goes back about a century.[/QUOTE]

Goes back way over a century, and has evolved from the old tradition, where a demon sets a maid impossible tasks and whether she fails or not will determine if she falls into his clutches. Child believed this to be an interloper from an earlier ballad 'Lady Isobel and the Elfin Knight' (There are many related songs, The Two Magicians is another well known one, or 'Broomfield Hill',again both with many versions.) The 'Parsley, sage rosemary and thyme' refrain contains herbs with magical significance used in spells and to counter spells.

There are many versions of the song, as many as there are singers. However, the version that Paul Simon sings is precicely Martin Carthy's interpretation put together from a number of different versions. The version I sing has more verses and a slightly different tune.

No-one wrote it, It's both Traditional and Anonymous,it just sort of evolved, one thing you can say with certainty though Paul Simon didn't!

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You guys have mentioned so many of my favorites, but here’s one more-

Harry Chapin

I still find myself singing “Taxi” when I’m driving down the road, and I’m pretty sure I cried when I first heard “Cats in the Cradle”

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Wow - So many, hard to narrow it down.

Jackson Browne
Bob Dylan
Robert Hunter/Jerry Garcia
John Prine
Greg Brown
Jay Farrar
Joni Mitchell

-Mark

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Grant
I love both Kate and Stan. One other I would put in the same category is an east coast guy, Bill Staines.
Bob

Lennon/McCartney
Richard Thompson
Paul Simon
Joni Mitchell
James Taylor
Ralph McTell
Ray Davies
Stevie Wonder
Neil Finn
Carole King
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[QUOTE=Bill Greene] Bernie Taupin
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Brovo I wondered if anyone would mention Bernie

Well known?

Roger Waters

Bob Dylan

Paul Simon

David Bowie

Stevie Wonder

John Lennon

Sting

Stevie Nicks

Bono

Phil Keaggy


Want me to list lesser known ones?

Martin Smith

Mat Redman

Martyn Joseph

Steve Knightely

Ian White

Joanne Hogg

Michael Card

John Michael Talbot

Robin Mark

Mark Lee

That'll do for now...









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[QUOTE=Dave White]
Richard Thompson
Ralph McTell
Ray Davies
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Oh yes Dave forgot them, the Kinks always did write better songs than the Beatles. I forgot my all time favourite though. Ewan McColl. His songs of the working man are so evocative, Shoals of Herring, Dirty old town....

Colin

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[QUOTE=BBailey] Grant
I love both Kate and Stan. One other I would put in the same category is an east coast guy, Bill Staines.
Bob[/QUOTE]

Bob, Bill Staines is another of my favorites, as are many of the others mentioned.

But Bill is still around (was playing just down the road from my house last year). Man, I guess it has been around a couple of decades since we lost Kate and Stan

Grant

Again, I have to choose Bruce Cockburn

And how could I possibly have forgotten him:

Randy Newman

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I'm with Ron!

Merle Haggard----> Love the Hag
Paul Mcartney
Roger waters

J.S. Bach

No doubt about it

There is just too many! I could have included many of the above, but also

Robbie Robertson
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Carl Michael Bellaman
Evert Taube
Cornelis Vreesvijk
Sam Cooke
Frank Zappa
Phil Lynnot
Bruce Springsteen
Age Aleksandersen
Elvis Costello
Burt Bacharach
Alf Proysen
Bob Marley
John Hiatt

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Robbie Robertson

Carole King

Bob Dylan

Leonard Cohen

Randy Newman

Robert Hunter

Not necessarily in that order.

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