Rock & Roll Singers: Conspicuous Only In Their Absence
Submitted by Rock and Roll Guru Blog
As we flew home yesterday after celebrating Thanksgiving down south, I was reading the most recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine. In case you haven’t yet seen it, their cover story is the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
I’m not gonna list my top 100, or even the people I would delete from their list, because that would require way too much work…and I’m allergic to that. Suffice it to say approximately half the people on their list would also be on my list. However, if I ever did undertake such a venture I can guarantee the following people who were left off the Rolling Stone list would be on mine (in no particular order):
Grace Slick
Bob Weir
Jerry Garcia
Carole King
Carly Simon
Eric Clapton
Tom Petty
Elvis Costello
Paul Simon (Artie was already on their list)
Graham Nash
David Crosby
Southside Johnny
John B. Sebastian
Peter Townshend
George Harrison
Boz Scaggs
Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
Donald Fagen
Chrissy Hynde
Warren Zevon
Todd Rundgren
Justin Hayward
Phoebe Snow
Leon Russell
Jimi Hendrix
Frank Zappa
Joe Walsh
Mark Knopfler
Debby Harry
Ray Davies
Susan Tedeschi
David Byrne
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Dave Mason
Michael McDonald
Harry Nilsson
Meatloaf
This was pretty much off the top of my head, so I probably missed a few.
Who would you add to the Rolling Stone list?
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