My top 30 musical artists

Written By Michael Battisto

Maybe tomorrow it will be different. But for today, this is the list. Maybe there’s someone you don’t know, or haven’t listened to in a while:

  1. Beethoven

  2. Miles Davis

  3. Ali Farka Touré

  4. James Brown

  5. Louis Armstrong

  6. Robert Johnson

  7. Fela Kuti

  8. Tom Waits

  9. Björk

  10. Bach

  11. The Minutemen

  12. Aphex Twin

  13. Blind Willie Mctell

  14. The Pixies

  15. John Lee Hooker

  16. Velvet Underground

  17. Charles Mingus

  18. Tortoise

  19. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  20. Muddy Waters

  21. Charlie Parker

  22. Fugazi

  23. Duke Ellington

  24. Nina Simone

  25. Jimi Hendrix

  26. Townes Van Zandt

  27. The Stooges

  28. Bob Dylan

  29. Elliot Smith

  30. T. S. Monk

Michael Battisto
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