Loved Elvis. Learned to Jive because of his music. But now that I'm older I would prefer to have someone that wrote their music. To my knowledge Elvis didn't write but interpreted songs that others did. Big Mamma Thorton wrote Hound Dog as an example. Give me someone that can write,sing and arrange music. Like the following.

David Massengill
John Prine
Ray Materick
Guy Clarke
Tom Russell
Iris Dement
Ron Hynes
Bruce Murdock
Gordon Lightfoot
Dolores Keane
Tom Waits
Jerry Jeff Walker
Tom Paxton
Arlo and his Father
Just to name a few.Great thread by the way. Keep it up.