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I went back and read the lyrics to the River and Thunder Road. They are vastly superior to anything done by Mellencamp. When matched with their tune and the tight band they are pop masterpieces.
http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/TheRiver.html
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Stravinsky is a great composer but while he composed in America, he remained a Russian composer IMO. Copeland and his works are American top to bottom.
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This from a Rush fan. Oh brother.
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I am a big fan of Johnny Cash but he didn'[t write all of his own stuff and his work doesn't' have the breadth and depth of somebody like Springsteen or Dylan.
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Neil Young.
Now watch creekser say someone already proffered him and Young was rejected, yewthole.
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We can claim him. He lived here for 30+ years, became a U.S. citizen, was influenced by American culture and music, loved America, and incluenced many Americans.
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Touchy, touchy. He has not been proffered. Could this be, perhaps, becasue he is Canadian? Look it up and weep, pal.
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He is a good choice, no doubt. But he would be a better choice if you were looking for the greatest composer from America, as opposed to the best American composer. Does that make any sense?
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In fact I'd say even much more so. He was touching lives and writing deep songs long before either of them became popular, and still was affecting people right up until about the day he died. Ironically his cover of "Hurt"....which ironically being a cover from Trent Reznor, might've effected more people late in his career than anything Springsteen or Dylan have done in the past 20-30 years. That's one of the more heart breaking and emotional songs I've ever listened to and no one could've done it like him. Springsteen and Dylan were great in their own way.....but neither of them comes even close to having the haunting kind of voice or emotion that Cash put into his songs. Springsteen sounds like someone's got his balls in a vice grip and Dylan can't sing at all...but they both can write. Cash could and did ALL of the above and it could EASILY be argued that he wrote and performed music across more genres than either of them. To me Dylan was weird as hell...but of course people think that weird and bizarre is ground breaking....and I guess it is...to a point. Yes he can write fancy lyrics that don't make a damn bit of sense,,,,but again....I guess to some people that's where his genius lies.
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