CLASSICAL * OPERA * ROCK * PUNK * ROCKABILLY * COUNTRY * FOLK * BLUES * R & B * JAZZ * UNIQUE * ================================================================
(Not meant to be definative - just persoanl favs.)
CLASSICAL:

 The J.S. Bach Home Page
 The Official Glenn Gould Web Site
 Rosalyn Tureck
 E. Power Biggs
 Arnold  Schoenberg
 Ernst Krenek
 Orlando Gibbons Homepage
 William Byrd
 Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
 Charles Villiers Stanford
 Eric Coates
 Eric Satie
 Edgard Varese
 Theremins
OPERA:

 Gilbert & Sullivan - 
ROCK:

 Frank Zappa
 Don VanVliet - Capt. Beefheart
 The Greatful Dead
 MC5 
 The Ventures
 ZZ Top
PUNK:

 World Wide Punk
 El Duce & The Mentors - Seattle's gift to Punkdom
 The Sonics - Another Legend from Seattle's Punk scene
 Trashy Trompin, Sleezy Stompin - WSUM U Wisc Punk show
 Maximum Rock n Roll Magazine - the Industry standard
 
ROCKABILLY:
 Jerry Lee Lewis
 Commander Cody - & The Lost Planet Airmen
 Rev. Horton Heat
COUNTRY:

 Hank Williams - The Hank
 Jimmie Rodgers - The Singing Brakeman
 Hank Snow - The Sing'n Ranger
 Carter Family
 Patsy Cline
 Kitty Wells
 Loretta Lynn - The Coal Miner's Daughter
 Dolly Parton
 Emmylou Harris
 Woody Guthrie
 Johnny Cash
 Tennessee Ernie Ford
 George Jones
 Conway Twitty
 Johnny Paycheck
 Waylon Jennings - Waylord
 Willie Nelson
 Merle Haggard - The Hag
 Jerry Jeff Walker - & His Gonzo Banditos
 Randy Travis
 Don Messer - & His Islanders
 Stompin Tom Connors - Canadian Institution
 Tim Williams - BC's Cariboo Cowboy
BLUES:

 John Lee Hooker
 Muddy Waters
 Mississippi John Hurt
R & B
 James Brown
 Marvin Gaye
 Wilson Pickett
 Aretha Franklin
 Sam Cooke
 Scream'n Jay Hawkins

FOLK:

 Pete Seeger
 Bob Dylan
 Joan Baez
 Judy Collins
 Ramblin Jack Elliot
 Utah Phillips
 The Fugs - Ed Sanders/Tuli Kupferburg/et al.
 Jake Thackerry - son of The Boggery
 Phil Ochs
 Bob Bossin - Canadian String Band
 Odetta
 Buffy St-Marie
 Willie Dunn
 Gilles Vigneault
 Robert Charlebois
 Gordon Lightfoot
 Ian & Sylvia 
 The Stringband
 Jesse Winchester
 Tim Hardin
 Richie Havens
 Jim Kweskin Jug Band
JAZZ:

 Charlie Parker
 Edward K. "Duke" Ellington
 John Coltrane
 Charlie Mingus
 Theolonius Monk
 Dizzy Gillespie
 Sun Ra
 Raymond Scott - composer/musician/inventor/engineer
UNIQUE:

 Randy Newman
 Holy Model Rounders
 Carl Stalling - produced Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" cartoon music
 Leroy Shield - Hal Roach Studios ie. "Our Gang" theme
 T. Marvin Hatley - Hal Roach Studios music director
 Kinky Friedman & His Texas Jewboys