Sunflower, I'm afraid I haven't heard of the musicians you mentioned, apart from Tom Waits. What's their music like? I enjoy going to YouTube and looking things up there. You can find practically anything. I was listening briefly last night to Creedence Clearwater Revival, Johnny Cash, and someone called Johnny Hathaway. I don't know why Johnny Cash was so popular. He was just a singing cowboy if you ask me.

Tom Waits is pretty obscure for most, glad to meet someone else who has heard of him. I think Mule Variations and Bone Machine are favourites, though really I like everything he does. Unfortunately I just can't take much of it while my symptoms are bad because at times it's like walking into a garage where people are banging on the walls, garbage cans etc LOL. There are a lot of clips of him on YouTube from talk shows. He's a very funny person and some of the things he says are so "out there" -- but they're funny too. I doubt I'll ever get to see him in concert but I'm glad he's still making music. He strikes me as a very genuine person who is happy to do his own thing, in an industry where image is so important to so many people.