Here's one. He is the greatest living writer of Western songs, IMO. Not "country and western". Western. He started singing in the 50's, was one half of a hugely influential folk duo in the 60's, wrote his first and most famous song about a weather phenomenon (in a sense), lives in Alberta, and usually wears a ten gallon hat. He said, "If that little squirt (Dylan) can write songs, so can I," and proceeded to do so, but he never matched Dylan's yearly output of great songs, as he has freely admitted. Still, he's one of the best.