by L A Myers-Campos

Created on: August 15, 2009

This is an unordered list that I have no intention of ever organizing in any sort of heirarchy for multiple reasons, but I will explain one of the primary reasons, as preamble to the inventory. Each singer that I include on this roster has some particular little thing that continues to draws my admiration and fascination as well as give back to me some inexplicable magic elixir that works like preventive medicine upon my soul. Whatever that particular peculiarity might be, for each, it is that very thing that makes each ultimately beyond comparison with one another, as least as far as I'm concerned. I need to hear all twenty of them on a regular basis for twenty different reasons. This need fluctuates constantly and so therefore my preferences change in the same manner.

Janis Joplin
When the whole world is 'Down on Me' and Bobby McGee, Janis and I lock all the doors and sing the bluest blues there ever was, with every ounce of our being. A mutually beneficial experience for all parties involved as well as those who inspire us in their absence.

Katie Melua
She brings me sentimentality without any maudlin regrets or melancholy

Stevie Nicks
This gypsy has the gift of bringing out the mysterious beauty in ordinary moments.

Bob Marley
He loves Jah as much as I do and I consider many of his songs as sacred hymns to the Almighty and so I sing along. Every time Bob and I sing, we are in 'church.'

Jimi Hendrix
Another religious experience; Jimi once said music was his religion. I truly feel that it is the same for me. His music is like a celestial love-nest full of Technicolor sign-language.

John Lennon (Beatles)
There isn't anything John sings that I don't wholeheartedly agree with, on a conceptual level. There isn't any note he hits that I can't reach.

Tom Petty
I really don't know why I love his music so much. I just do. I always have and I never tire of his style. He's so darn American, too.

Joe Walsh (the Eagles)
Joe was the background music that set the tone and mood for a couple of very significant water-shed moments in my late teens and early twenties. I'm attached because he and I go 'way back'.

Steve Miller (Traffic)
I love every thing about his music and we also share a history that goes pretty far back into my formative years. Also there was this one drunken day driving through the mountains with only my best buddy and a cassette of his 'Greatest Hits (19741978)' album.

Johnny Cash
What can I say? The man in black is just cool. Not to mention full of deep rhythm and

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