Best Singer Songwriter indifferent genres

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[Patrick del Poker Grande]

You fools have all overlooked the two best of the last 15 years:

Billy Corgan
and
Thom Yorke

I can understand someone not liking either one of them for their voice, but their songwriting abilities are matched by very very few.

[FouTight]

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I don't think he qualifies at all... I don't think he "writes" any of the music for Tool either, other then maybe the lyrics. From the few interviews I've read/heard its more of a collaborative process with them.

Ryan Adams is a great nomination.

I would also nominate Jim James from My Morning Jacket, easily one of my favorites.
Willie Nelson?
Waylon Jennings?
I'm not too sure what % of their music each wrote, but even if it was only 50% I would consider both of them along with the already mentioned Johnny Cash.

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I was going to point this out as well...

What genre was Wesly Willis?

[jesusarenque]

Hank Williams

[IndieMatty]

I hold in high regard the following:

Yorke
Keenan
Tweedy
Sufjan
and
Gordon Lightfoot.

[4_2_it]

Beck cuts across several genres and is always money.

Edit - Sea Change might be the best break-up album of all-time

[DMBFan23]

try:

halloween
the stone
dont drink the water
all along the watchtower (yes, I know it's not originally his)
Minarets
Warehouse
Dancing Nancies

They get lighter and more 'peppy' as you go down the list, almost to the point where Warehouse and Nancies are sorta hybrids, but these are some of the darker ones (yes that's a relative term).

[BK_]

my favorite modern singer songwriter is sufjan stevens

[IndieMatty]

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my favorite modern singer songwriter is sufjan stevens

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If he continues what he is doing he is going to be recognized in the next few albums as one of the best in the last 25 years---in any genre.

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Sh*tbreak?