When I go through my collection the one thing that (regardless of genre) my preference seems to be music from the South. I attribute my taste in Rock music to my father, he may have the biggest rock & blues collection in the midwest. I grew up listening to Lynard Skynard, CCR, The Doors, Rolling Stones, Joe Walsh, Steve Miller etc... all courtesy of my father. When I hit Jr. High and High School my music tastes changed to groups like Guns & Roses(still my favorite) and Van Halen. Then 1988 hit and I got a copy of an Eazy E tape from a kid that transferred to my school from Los Angles and I was hooked on Hip Hop. Back then the Hip Hop section in the music stores was non existent and we had to wait for his cousin to come and visit before we would get the new music. We would make so many dubbed tapes for friends that the tape decks we used wouldn't last any longer than a month or so. When I met my wife she was into and still is into Country music. It took me awhile but I have actually found that if you look hard enough there is enough Country music out there with a rock influence that it has become one of my favorite genres (thank you Big & Rich).
Currently the top 10 groups in my rotation are
1. Lynard Skynard
2. Velvet Revolver
3. Young Buck
4. T.I
5. Big & Rich
6. Dropkick Murphy's (if you have seen The Departed you have heard them)
7. Lil Flip
8. Ludacris
9. Trace Adkins
10. Robert Cray
