I think the best rock & roll artists are the acoustics, like Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, etc. Although I've always thought that calling them "rock & roll" artists seemed kind of silly, but then again, calling them "folk" artists wouldn't make much sense, either. I guess the proper term is "folk-rock," I don't know.

Anyway, I think musucians like Donovan, Nick Drake and James Taylor are the best thing about rock & roll. Oh, yeah, and the Beatles have some great acoustic music, too. Other great folk-rock musicians: John Denver, John Lennon (at times), Leonard Cohen, Don McLean and Gordon Lightfoot.

You left out the best of all - Neil Young. <p>"Well I want to die." - Raleigh St Clair</p>

man, I think James Taylor is as cheesy as anything, and I don't really see any rock and roll bone in john denver, but I won't get into an argument about what constitutes as rock, I'm just saying.
right now M. Ward is a very good acoustic rock guy. David Garza, my man, my hero, has been a very good acoustic rock guy for years. beck's sea change had a lot of interesting acoustic stuff. seu jorge has a few acoustic songs on his new album "cru." brazillian dudes were always pretty good at rocking out acoustic. gilberto gil and ben jorge made an incredible album in the 60s that were just those two guys improv-ing acoustic ballads. I even thought India Arie's "acoustic soul" from a few years back was quite rockin'.
a lil' back in the days there was elliott smith and big star who were mellow acoustic dudes, then a lil' bit back from then was Jonathan Richman.


Edited by: pete at: 8/18/05 10:20 am

James Taylor isn't cheesy. He's just...very soothing. But that M. Ward guy is really good.

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James Taylor sucks donkey ass. It's just the law.

John Denver sucks just as hard. <p>"Well I want to die." - Raleigh St Clair</p>

Heh, poor James Taylor. Nothing can ever redeem him in my eyes after that awful Mockingbird duet he did with then wife Carly Simon, like, bleugh!
One of the first songs I learnt on guitar though was Fire And Rain... :o

I have a nostalgic affection for James Taylor and Carly Simon both -- not so much for John Denver, but to each his own. I effing love Carole King. So eff off, the lot of you. ;)

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Dennis Driscoll and Elliott Smith are also good.

i will stand up for john denver.

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Cat Stevens, well for 3 of his albums at least, is the shit... <p>"Well I want to die." - Raleigh St Clair</p>

Come on, two top-ten hits that include the word "high" in the title? Please. The man was wild, let us all rock!

That's what I'm talkin' about Raleigh!

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Neil's not exactly acoustic...

Dylan is the same type of thing. Sometimes acoustic, sometimes not. Neil's acoustic stuff still stands as some of the best music ever made, so he should count. <p>"Well I want to die." - Raleigh St Clair</p>

But Neil CAN rock out very hard acoustic when he wants to.
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Sorry but I must defer to Raleigh on this re: James Taylor and donkey's ass.

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