I got into blues via dancing, which has heavily influenced my tastes.

In no particular order:

* Will Wilde

* Sugarray Rayford

* Smokehouse

* Etta James

* Gordon Webster

* The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn

* Tin Pan

* Asylum Street Spankers

* Hugh Laurie

* Legendary Rhythm and Blues Revue

* Preservation Hall Jazz Band

* The Marsalis Family

* Katie Webster

* John Lee Hooker

* Keb Mo

* Son House

* Joe Bonamassa

* ZZ Ward

* Kevin Selfe

* Allen Toussaint

* Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

* Bill Withers

* Nina Simone

* Buddy Guy

* Lightning Hopkins

* Howlin' Wolf

* Brother Yusef

There's probably a whole lot more - these are just the ones that I can think of off the top of my head. You probably know a lot of them, but I didn't want to guess which ones you know, so I just wrote out a bunch of people I like.