Don't know if I am repeating; I read too slowly to puruse the whole thread. But I just heard a wonderful young woman last night named Kathy Moser who is from New Jersey. See her here:

http://www.wingsoverwater.net/

(I hope the blicky worked.) In her show she ranted about almost every evil on my list and some I hadn't thought of much lately (feeling as I do so dismally defeated on almost everything that matters I have felt, like why bother?). Add her to the list. Couldn't think of replicating her songs though, cause she plays, like complicated--tunings and fingerings and the like.