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And a few from the record shelf:
Blues:
Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson, Albert Collins, Albert King, Freddie King, Slim Harpo, Jimmy Reed, Magic Sam, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Ike Turner, T-Bone Walker, Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal, Skip James, Canned Heat, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Silvertones, Jimmy Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Real RnB and Soul:
James Brown, The JB's, The Meters, Booker T and the MG's, Hank Ballard, Charles Brown, Ray Charles, Louis Jordan, Dan Penn, Aretha Franklin, The Bar Kays, Solomon Burke, Percy Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway, Joe Tex, ZZ Hill, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Don Covay, Al Green, Wille Mitchell, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Sam and Dave, Arthur Alexander, Junior Walker, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, The Neville Brothers, Irma Thomas, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley
Rock:
The Allman Brothers, The Beatles, Cream, Elvis Costello, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Prince, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, ZZ Top
Kinda Country:
Elvis Presley, Speedy West, Jimmy Bryant, Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Spade Cooley, Hank Thompson, Johnny Cash, Bill Frisell, Woody Guthrie, Wille Nelson, Hank Snow, John Prine, Charlie Rich, Merle Travis, Hank Williams
Jazz:
Theolonius Monk, Bill Evans, Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Fats Waller, Hank Jones, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Lee Morgan, Johnny Hodges, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon, Milt Jackson, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Johnny Smith, Johnny Hartman, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Smith, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, Lou Donaldson, Shirley Scott, Raymond Scott, Spike Jones, Cal Tjader, Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Weather Report, Larry Goldings, Medeski Martin and Wood
Bass Players:
Oscar Pettiford, Jimmy Blanton, Scott LaFaro, Paul Chambers, Charlie Haden, Charles Mingus, Ray Brown, George Mraz, Percy Heath, Jaco Pastorius, Donald "Duck" Dunn, George Porter, Jerry Jemmott, Tommy Cogbill, David Hood, Leroy Hodges, Willie Weeks, Bernard Odum, Fred Thomas, Chris Wood, James Jamerson, Johnny B. Gayden, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Keith Ferguson, Preston Hubbard, Ronnie James Weber
Real Old Timey Stuff:
Pablo Casals, Glenn Gould, Itzhak Perlman, Janos Starker

And a few from the book shelf:
Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, John Fante, John Steinbeck, Ken Kesey, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, James Fenimore Cooper, Hunter S. Thompson, Erskine Caldwell, Peter Guralnick, Jean Sheppard, Patrick O'Brian, C.S. Forester, P.G. Wodehouse, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexandre Dumas, Sherman Alexie, David James Duncan, James Ellroy, Michael Connelly, Patricia Highsmith, Ross MacDonald, Mickey Spillane, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alfred Steiglitz, Ansel Adams

Just to name a few. There's lots more.