Artist	Song
Laura Nyro	And When I Die
from Time and Love: The Essential Masters (1967)
Phil Ochs	Pleasures of the Harbor
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Phil Ochs (2002)
Randy Newman	I Think It's Going to Rain Today
from Randy Newman (1968)
Gordon Lightfoot	If You Could Read My Mind
from If You Could Read My Mind (1970)
Leonard Cohen	Bird On the Wire
from The Best of Leonard Cohen (1969)
Kris Kristofferson	Me and Bobby McGee
from The Essential Kris Kristofferson (1970)
Joni Mitchell	River
from Blue (1971)
Tim Buckley	Song to the Siren
from The Best of Tim Buckley (Remastered) (1983)
Jackson Browne	Late for the Sky (Remastered)
from The Next Voice You Hear - The Best of Jackson Browne (1974)
Carly Simon	That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
from The Best of Carly Simon (1971)
Joan Baez	Diamonds and Rust
from Greatest Hits (Remastered) (1975)
John Denver	Rocky Mountain High
from Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits (1972)
Dan Fogelberg	Longer
from The Very Best of Dan Fogelberg (1979)
Jim Croce	Time In a Bottle
from You Don't Mess Around With Jim (1972)
Harry Chapin	Cat's In the Cradle
from Verities & Balderdash (1974)
Billy Joel	Piano Man
from Piano Man (1973)
Cat Stevens	Wild World
from Greatest Hits (1970)
Tom Waits	Ol '55
from The Early Years Vol. 2 (1993)

Comment:

"When Bob Dylan wrote 'Positively 4th Street' a lightbulb went on in my head," Joni Mitchell said in 1994. "I thought, 'Oh my God, we can write about [i]anything[/i] now.'" With Dylan as the key influence on Joni, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and dozens of other troubadour-auteurs, the singer-songwriter became a lone poet, opening himself up through song in order to make the personal universal.

The singer-songwriters who emerged in the late '60s were mostly reconstituted folkies in retreat from the noise and psychedelic overkill of electric rock. They pulled back from the turmoil and violence of street protests against the Vietnam War, holing up in shacks in the canyons of Los Angeles. There they were joined by a different genotype of composer-performer: former songwriters-for-hire who'd penned teen hits in industry hives such as New York's Brill Building. Artists as different as Carole King, Neil Diamond, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and Jimmy Webb stepped out of the backroom sha

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