Wow!!!

Kinda depends on categories of music...

Ahhh, in the singer song-writer category there are so many who really fit the genius description: Woody, Dylan, Springsteen, Mark Germino, Shawn Phillips, Paul Seibel, Bob Martin, Joni Mitchell

Then ya got yer alt-country with Jerry Garcia and the Dead, James Lee Stanley, the guys in Poco, and Pure Prarie League...

Then the folkies like John Stewart, Pete Seegar and Joan Bias...

And country folks who wrote alot of their own stuff like Don Williams and Hank Williamns...

As fir rockers, Ian Anderson and John Lennon are in a class by themselves with folks like Pete Townsend, Paul McCartney, Gary Wright, Mick Jaggar in the 2nd tier...

But now when it come to blues? Different story... So many folks who I consider genious because they each found thier own sound and style: Eddie "Son" House, Willie Brown, Robert Johnson, Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, Elmore James, Lightnin' Hopkins, Dan Pickett, Mama Thornton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Muddy Waters....

But there's this last category of folks that kinda just flopped over where they flopped over like James" I Feel Good" Brown, an' like Johnny Horton, an' like Conwat Twitty, an like Jerry Lee Lewis....

Yeah, I'm sure that I isses quite a few of folks I would consider geniuos but these folks that I have mentioned all carved out their own territories and that, to me , is genious in music...

Bobert