My Favorite Music
The best website I have found as a music reference is:
All Music Guide
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favorite musicians & groups by genre
listings are alphabetical - my favorite favorites are hi-lighted
Though I love and listen to many, many more, I would always want to have at least one album of each of these on my iPod!
Pop & Rock
Oldies (50's - early 60's)
Roy Orbison
Simon & Garfunkel
Hippie Music (mid 60s - early 70s)
Bob Dylan
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
The Doors
Janis Joplin
Joni Mitchell
70s - 80s pop & rock
James Taylor
Jim Croce
Lou Reed / Velvet Underground
Nick Drake
Paul Simon
90s - present pop & rock
Elvis Costello
Jeff Buckley
Leonard Cohen
Steely Dan
Tom Waits
Van Morrison
Blues & Jazz
blues
Buddy Guy
Dr. John
Junior Wells
Son Seals
Taj Mahal
big band jazz
Duke Ellington
vocal jazz
Carmen McRae
Diane Schurr
Eddie Jefferson
Ella Fitzgerald
Johnny Hartman
Nina Simone
Norah Jones
mainstream jazz
Art Tatum
Bill Evans
Clifford Brown
Dexter Gordon
Django Reinhardt
Joe Pass
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Stephane Grappelli
Toots Thielemans
Country & Folk
country
Charlie Rich
Johnny Cash
folk
Joan Baez
Peter, Paul & Mary
Funk, Soul & R&B
funk
Johnnie "Guitar" Watson
classic soul, R&B
Billy Paul
Bobby Womack
Delfonics
Dynamic Superiors
Earth, Wind & Fire
Etta James
John Legend
Lou Rawls
Marvin Gaye
Stevie Wonder
World Music
Brazilian
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Joao Gilberto
Hawaiian
Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole
Irish
The Chieftains