This is especially true of songwriters who happen to be in a band together. Here's a look at some premium '80s examples of this type of artistic ...

As a songwriter and performer of brilliance and distinction, Costello deepened his catalogue of great pop/rock songs throughout the decade, ...

A shining beacon of classic rock and a singer-songwriter of the highest order, Tom Petty has been a major contributor to pop music for an impressively long ...

The work of '70s and '80s mainstay Dan Fogelberg has always had a strong tendency to be overlooked and undervalued, perhaps because of the singer's often ...

Anyone silly enough to suggest that the '80s boasted largely fleeting and forgettable music need only turn to British rocker and master musician Elvis ...

Though few of them made a mark on the country charts, several songwriters and performers who emerged during the '80s skillfully blended folk, pop, ...

Without Cetera’s prolific if generally toothless songwriting, the group was forced to employ outside songwriters, bring in an inferior replacement for ...

An immensely talented singer-songwriter fluent in an impressively wide array of styles, English rocker Paul Weller sprang onto the scene initially as the ...

But during this period Seger the songwriter truly began to mature, writing his best songs about the painful and complicated process of aging and the ...

From Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell to Ani Difranco, here's a look at ten of the best American folk music singer/songwriters of all time.