re: Name the top musicians from your state (currently living)

^ good list ...

the absolute best musician alive today from tennessee is valerie june, though she has only 1 album out ... girl can sing/play any type of music, from gospel to soul to bluegrass ...

If I were a Louisiana native, Dr. John would be #1 on my list.

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If I were a Louisiana native, Dr. John would be #1 on my list.

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George Porter Jr

Texas :

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Bob Wills/Texas Playboys/Light Crust Doughboys, Milton Brown/Musical Brownies/Light Crust Doughboys, T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, Charlie Christian, Red Garland, Eddie Durham, Albert Collins, Blind Willie Johnson, Johnny Copeland, Z.Z. Hill, Pee Wee Crayton, Harry Choates, Lightnin' Hopkins, Gatemouth Brown, Lead Belly, Big Mama Thorton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Mance Lipscomb, Scott Joplin, Hot Lips Page, Gene Ramey, Jack Teagarden, Teddy Wilson, Kenny Dorham, Ella Mae Morse, Charles Brown, Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Leon Payne, Tex Ritter, Roger Miller, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Don Williams, Johnny Horton, George Strait, Jim Reeves, David Persons,Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Ray Price, Doug Sahm/Sir Douglas Quintet/Texas Tornados, Clifton Chenier, T-Bone Burnett, Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnnie Taylor, Lydia Mendoza, Flaco Jimenez, Santiago Jimenez Sr., Beto Villa, Narcisco Martinez, Archie Bell & the Drells, Dustin Adams, Johnny Guitar Watson, Yolanda Adams, Ornette Coleman, King Curtis, Mickey Newbury, Phil Ochs, Townes Van Zandt, Trish Murphy, Selena Quintanilla, Pantera, Steve Miller Band, Boz Scaggs, Charlie Sexton, Janis Joplin, ZZ Top, Eric Johnson, Grammy winning songwriter Glenn Douglas Tubb, Meat Loaf, the metal-neck tandem WhiskeyDick[1] and many others.

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FTW

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In no order:
The Commodores
Donna Jean Godchaux
Gucci Mane
Drive-By-Truckers (kinda)
Lionel Richie
Alabama
The Temptations


Dead:
Wilson Pickett
Percy Sledge

Jim Morrison is not alive btw

edit: Removed Jimmy Buffett. Didn't realize he was born in Pascagoula. He's pretty music all Bama though

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And you are calling TX meh. Son, you have a few pretty heavy hitters there but just Janis, Willie and Stevie Ray are enough to put your puny state to shame.

Simmer down cowboy. "Despite all that" means besides the large number of prominent names to come out of Texas, it's still meh. And I know you won't grasp that because you're from there.

Lil twist is from texas

Add lead singer from Survivor (Eye of the Tiger)

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If by some slim almost nonexistent change you aren't an alter you need a post quality review.

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It is the internet, bro. Who really cares?