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Favorite Songwriters
No one has ever asked, but if anyone ever did, here’s who I would say are my Top Ten favorite contemporary songwriters:
  1. Steve Forbert
  2. Neil Young
  3. Bob Dylan
  4. Ray Davies
  5. Townes Van Zandt
  6. Willie Nelson
  7. Richard Thompson
  8. John Prine
  9. Robert Earl Keen
  10. Robert Hunter
The Second Ten:
  1. Warren Zevon
  2. John Hiatt
  3. James McMurtry
  4. Lyle Lovett
  5. Joe Ely
  6. Lucinda Williams
  7. Freedy Johnston
  8. Van Morrison
  9. Paul Simon
  10. Tom Petty
Honorable mention: Kris Kristofferson, J.J. Cale, Graham Parker, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell, Dave Alvin, Steve Goodman, Robbie Robertson