Okay, here’s an eclectic mix of artists for you, some obscure, some not.
Alabama 3 (A3)
A good album to start with is Exile On Coldharbour Lane
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Start with the album Facing Future
Stan Ridgway
Start with The Big Heat
Jimmy Cliff
Start with his self-titled album
The Pixies
Start with Doolittle
Matisyahu
Youth
Blitzen Trapper
Furr
The Smithereens
Meet The Smithereens! (A Beatles cover album)
Wyclef Jean
Welcome to Haiti Creole 101
Wall Of Voodoo
Call of the West
The Real Tuesday Weld
I, Lucifer
They Might Be Giants
Flood
Groovie Ghoulies
Go! Stories
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘66
Herb Alpert Presents Segio Mendes & Brasil ‘66
Alan Parsons
A Valid Path
Electric Light Orchestra
A New World Record
Modest Mouse
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
and last, but never least
The Beatles
Abbey Road (The greatest album ever made!)
Hopefully there is something there you’ll like.