Hank williams jr, reba mcentire, mel tillis, merle haggard, metallica, johnny cash, george jones, loretta lynn, dan seals, joan jett, hank locklin, etc.

Joshua Radin
Joe Pug
Newton Faulkner
Damien Rice
Matt Costa
Ben Kweller

Conor Oberst
Damien Rice
Angus and Julia Stone
The Weepies
Matt Nathanson
Johnny Lang
Charlotte Martin
Kate Nash..her songs can be really funny
Florence and The Machine
A Fine Frenzy
The Dodos
1997
Mumford and Sons

Tim Buckley
Skip Spence
Elliott Smith
Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen
Jeff Buckley
Nick Drake
Richard Thompson
Townes Van Zandt
Conor Oberst
Loudon Wainwright III

Elliott Smith
Emily Jane White
Iron & Wine
Damien Jurrardo
The Tallest man on Earth
Ane Brun
Anna Terheim
Sofia Talvik
Tim Knol
Rufus Wainwright
Tom Waits
PJ Harvey
Neko Case
and many many more

Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan
Townes Van Zant
Damien Dempsey

Theres so many it would be hard to list, but Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Roger Miller, Tom T Hall, just to name a few

MY favorite song writer is Jim Steinmen (meatloaf's songs)

My favorite singer/songwriters(and fav songs) are:
Billy Joel (Summer Highland Falls)
Frank Turner (The ballad of me and my friends)
Jackson Browne (The Pretender)
Don Henley (all she wants to do is dance)and
Elton John (Your Song)

oh man I'm a huge fan of Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert, etc. If you like them, i gotta recommend Ginnette Ward. Upcomign country singer, I think she's gonna be huge.

me = huge fan of taylor swift and johnny cash. i also like ginnette ward because she mixes both styles together. it's brilliant.