Favorite singer/songwriters
 

1. Bruce Springsteen
2. PAul McCartney
3. Jim Croce

1. John Mayer
2. Norah Jones
3. Ray Charles

Few of the top of my head... thoroughly enjoy these 3 especially I guess.

1. Tilted
2. Music
3. Belongs

1. Ray Davies (been digging the Kinks lately, Waterloo Sunset, check it out)
2. James Taylor
3. Probably Elvis Costello.

I love Dylan, but (even though it's his claim to fame) I don't really consider him a good "songwriter" because his tunes don't translate well to other artists performing them (IMO, of course). Dylan is definitely the best writer of Dylan songs, though ;-)

Jim Croce
Don Mclean
Cat Stevens
David Gray
Damien Rice
Tracy Chapman
Dylan
Jason Mraz
Carol King
Carly Simon
Paul McCartney/John Lennon/George Harrison

Hmm I'll remember some more later.

Asta!!

Neil Young
Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan
Jay Farrar
Jerry Joseph
Bruce Hornsby
Elliott Smith
James Taylor
Van Morrison
Nick Drake
Gillian Welch
Patterson Hood
Warren Haynes (most of his work is with Gov't Mule, Allman Bros, and the Dead, but his solo stuff is some of my favorite)
Sam Beam (aka Iron & Wine)
Willie Nelson
Elvis Costello

Although I don't normally think of Lennon & McCartney as singer/songwriters, I guess they make my list too.

Paul Simon, Jim Morrison, Lennon - Poets
Prince - redefined our expectations of music
Chuck D., Zack de la Rocha - made music socially relevant again
David Bowie - made music wonderfully confusing
Morrisey, Leonard Cohen - made music wonderfully depressing

Currently enjoy lyrically The Shins, Dashboard Confessional - and Marilyn Manson gives as good a middle finger as anyone out there today...

How the fuck could I forget Neil Young?!

Asta!!

what! no Tom Waits?

The one and only Jimmy Pop.

I am working off the assumption that all of these people wrote their own stuff:

Bob Dylan
Marvin Gaye
Bachmann/Cummings

doh! :eek:

Also, Tom Waits.