Essential Artists List: Who's Underrated?

We’ve just posted our Fall Membership Drive listener poll, asking listeners for their 5 Essential Artists, plus one pick each for an Underrated Artist, an Overrated Artist, and a future New Essential Artist.

Our staffers picked theirs: Essential Artist Staff List

Who are the artists you think are most underrated?

I, for one, picked Alejandro Escovedo. He’s had a long career creating beautiful music -- from ballads to screaming rockers -- and the past few years he’s been working with a string quintet that could take your breath away. If there were justice in the world, he would live like a king. Anyone else?...