Favorite artists and favorite songs - that's a tough one for me.  One of my very favorites is the late Bob Marley, so I decided to go with him this month.  My first trip to Jamaica was just a few weeks after Bob Marley's early death -  (he was only 36).  We heard this awesome music over speakers everywhere we went.  I finally asked one of the shop owners who that was.  The country was in mourning, and everybody was playing his music.  She told me that if we came back in a few hours, she would make me a tape of his songs.  I played the heck out of that little tape and it wasn't very long before Ragee music exploded everywhere.