Sadly, we Americans can't claim the Rolling Stones. At the end of the Reactnow show they introduced the last act as the "greatest example of american music still preforming today"(or something like that). It was (ugh) Neil Young. I would say it was the R.H.ChiliPeppers and Pearl Jam. I could also except Aerosmith or Lynyrd Synyrd. What's yall's pick? cw

Bob Dylan.

- Doxa

Bon Jovi.

I´d spontaneosly answer Keith Richards, but he´s indeed from Dartford.

Not bein American but an oool´ fan of Lynyrd Skynyrd I bought Skynyrd´s last
album (yeah, bought =-O ), and I´m sorry to say I think it stank. I will give it to some unhappy soul. For me it feels a little like necromancy pickin up the old dead band.
Some song are ok, but most is overproduced, and hillbilly, not in the right way bit in a wide-assed way.

The actual existence of Steely Dan is, IMO, to your utmost patriotic musical honor!!

I got a soft spot for Merle Haggard.

ROCKMAN

[www.leehazlewood.net]
...And I got one for oooool´ Lee.

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen

isn't neil young from Canada?

i'd say Aeromsith

Isnt Canada in America?

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> Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen


yup..and whilst Neil is indeed Canadian, he has lived in the US for his entire career and his music is inextricably linked with that country.

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> Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen


Unquestionably. And the three greatest male artists in American rock ever.

In the rock n' roll (and little bit of country) genre, Joe Ely, Alejandro Escovedo, John Mellencamp, James McMurtry, Rickie Lee Jones, Lucinda Williams, and Rosie Flores when she lets loose on that big guitar of hers!

Don't forget all the blues and jazz musicians, so what about Chuck Berry?

Brian Wilson.

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What about him ? What original songs has he come up with since about 1964 besides the horrible "My Ding-a-Ling" ??

tom petty

I can't believe I forgot Tom Petty. Amen to that

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> What about him ? What original songs has he come
> up with since about 1964 besides the horrible "My
> Ding-a-Ling" ??

The question was about artists who are still peforming today.





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Only an American would not know Neil is Canadian or that British Columbia is not in South America. Unfortunatly, like the Stones, Canadians see the potential to maximize the on the US market so use the US to advance their careers. So here's to the hidden Canucks out there...Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrie (trator), John Candy, Eugene Levy, Avril, Allanis, Shenia, Joni, Pa on Bonnaza, Perry mason/Ironside, Greg Kineer, Donald Sutherland, Mathew Perry ........on and on.

I believe Neil may have had the first Sweet Neo Con with Southern man...this was sure not a US perspective at the time.

Bob Dylan

three words:

dylan, forgerty, petty

(sorry, Gazza - Neil is Canadian born and thus cannot run for this office)

Country of career/adoption ought to be given higher importance than place of birth. Americans, IMO, have every right in the world over Neil Young and Joni Mitchell as American artists, since it is American record companies (and also management cies?) that had given them their big break, and they stuck to it.
Jimi Hendrix for me is England's pride, since he did a fabulous English career (as a recording artist, then sprung to the USA and worldwide) and was treated like gold over there. In the USA (and Canada), he would probably have done a career in soul music all right (in the best of scenarios), but this is not what he was after at all.

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> dylan, forgerty, petty
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> (sorry, Gazza - Neil is Canadian born and thus
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Phew. By that criteria we Brits can give Cliff Richard back to India, then.

Suits me!

Hi Mark,

I don't think Adam Sandler or Greg Kinear are Canadian. You forgot to add Pam Anderson to the list. Unfortunately, Tom Green is also Canadian!

I also think one must remember that the vast majority of Canadians live near the US/Canada border and we all get US tv stations so our knowledge of the US is probably more than a person living in the US south would know about us. I'm sure most Americans know where BC is (I live here and I see a ton of US license plates on the roads), although people living in the south may be more familiar with somewhere like Mexico.

As far as the best example, I'd have to say Springsteen.

This Canadian says probably Aerosmith or Tom Petty. Tom's a rocker and does a great cover of Satisfaction IMO.

The Allman Brothers Band

Bob Dylan

Lucinda Williams

Wilco

That's a pretty good start!

Ross

Truly "American" music? Alison Krause and Union Station maybe.

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> It was (ugh) Neil Young.

Ugh? WTF?

Neil's Canadian, regardless of where he lives. Don't be silly.

"All his changes were there."

Thank goodness someone's (Rutger's) mentioned Dylan

Has anyone ever heard of John Fogerty? He's still performing, American, and pretty damn good. Mellancamp ain't bad either . . . for an American.

DEVO