Bluesman, great thread! Referring to my life, my wife says, "You’d think that other than beer and music nothing else existed." I listen to classical every single day, jazz most days and everything else very frequently. I like almost every musician mention thus far; so here are a few of my favorites that, I DONT THINK, have been mentioned.
Mark Knopfler (Fade to Black), Junior Kimbrough (and maybe “the black keys” every now and then), Tom Waits
Rammstein , Russian Circles
Misfits (danzig), Germs, Minor Threat
Leo Kottke, John Renbourn, David Grisman Quintet, Tony Rice Unit, Bill Frisell
Muddy World, Nels Cline (and some wilco), Barky, Masada String (john zorn), Stanley Clarke (the rite of strings), Tin Hat Trio
Dave Holland, Eric Dolphy, Miroslav Vitous (& Weather Report), Jimmy Giuffre, Kenny Garrett
Mercury Program, Weezer (only the old stuff)
Alberto Ginastera, Samuel Barber, Leos Janacek, Ned Rorem, Bela Bartok, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich, Henri Dutilleux, Igor Stravinsky, Zoltan Kodaly