Best lesser known and underappreciated songwriters. - Page 2

Lotas good ones here. Also:
Neil Young (assumed?)
Ron Sexsmith
Michael Fracasso
Butch Hancock
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Neal Casal
Dave Alvin
Kevin Russell (Gourds guy)
Tom Russell (no relation)
Vic Chestnutt

and Leon Russell

Stephen's list plus Michael Hurley Linda Perhacs Vashti Bunyan Bobb Trimble Scott Walker Matthew Young Fran loving Joanna Newsom is funnier to me.

Stephen Merrit (The Magnetic Fields) Cass McCombs Sam Prekop (The Sea and Cake) EDIT: Almost forgot Hrishikesh Hirway (The One AM Radio)

i'm really high on the avett brothers these days. terrific songs, great music.

warren zevon nick cave

Forgot Scott Walker but he's terrific. Also people please stop posting bullshit indie.

lol. OP wants to "branch out". On that note, I would also like to add that some of Against Me!'s earliest work (Tom's Demo through to The Disco Before the Breakdown) contains some great songwriting. Try the Acoustic EP for a taste.

joe pernice

+1, with special exemption for Bonnie Prince Billy. Hey Maggie, did you stumble on a little noise record shop/bar when you were in Jerusalem?

Townes van Zandt...love him. Also jeff buckley, rodney crowell, and yeah, brandon flowers solo stuff was quite good.

you also cant go wrong with calssic country. SOme old george jones always strikes my fancy.

the only ones I have to add to the already-mentioned are:

Robert Earl Keen (but I could be biased) - he's hit-and-miss, but I quite like Gravitational Forces
Aimee Mann - pretty much anything she put out post-2000 is solid, though she writes a LOT of melancholy stuff. I need some sunlight and vitamin C when I've been listening to her too long.

well, if we're going to go aimee mann and re keen ... how about lucinda williams?

or fiona apple

Gillian Welch/David Rawlings.