My favorite folk artists are Timber Timbre, M. Ward, Donovan, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Brewer & Shipley, Freelance Whales, the Wailin' Jennys, and Forest City Lovers, and to an extent, Gogol Bordello (gypsy punk). I just love the sound of traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as some of the newer acoustic/electric folk and folk-rock songs. I especially love folk songs that have the sounds of nature.

My favorite blues artists are John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Son House, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Hot Tuna, B.B. King, and Albert King. I love the soul that blues brings to music. Men who actually lived hard lives, dirt poor, growing up on a plantation or in the slums of a city.

I'm a huge Zep Head. I love rock ad blues-rock bands such as Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Yardbirds, The Turtles, The Allman Brothers Band, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, The White Stripes, Traffic, The Animals, Eric Burdon & War, Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Sebastian, Cream, Eric Clapton, and Jake Holmes. Not only are there many great original songs, but I also love when the old blues songs are taken and the power and talent of so many great artists are added to them.

I love listening to alternative artists. I love Primus and various other Les Claypool projects, That 1 Guy, Buckethead, Living Colour, She & Him, The Strokes, and Gorillaz. One thing I love about alternative music is that it is so diverse. You have people like Les Claypool playing amazing bass riffs, Buckethead knocking out so many competitors on guitar, That 1 Guy playing his own inventions and the saw, Gorillaz mixing rock and hip-hop, etc.

I love to relax to dub. I tend to listen to King Tubby, Prince Jammy, Black Uhuru, and Space Monkeyz. I love the echo added to the instruments and voices. I also love when saxophone is added into the mix.

Jazz is another great genre. I prefer many of the later artists such as Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Harry Gibson, Les Paul, and Bea Foote. Not only are they great songs to dance to, relax to, and are just all around fun, but some of them wrote great reefer songs. :XD

As for hip-hop, I tend to only listen to Kendrick Lamar and Del. I loved Deltron 3030 and Lamar's album, Section.80, is great. I can see why people are saying he will be the future of rap/hip-hop.

As for psychedelia and psychedelic rock, I listen to King Crimson (Progressive rock, pretty psychedelic), Love, Pink Floyd, and Kaleidoscope.

Lastly, for metal, I listen to heavy metal artists, such as Ozzy (mostly with Randy Rhoads, R.I.P.), Black Sabbath, and I listen to the folk metal band Korpiklaani.