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
Ivan Lins
Joao Gilberto

Hawaiian

Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole

Irish

The
Chieftains

Special Recommendations

Bluesy Jimi Hendresque

Santana-Abraxas
Little Jimmy King-Soul Survivors
Louis Myers

Other

Steely Dan-Aja