One's taste is music is highly individual and personal. So its hard to recommend something without knowing what you enjoy. If you like country/rock, try the album by Montgomery Gentry. I don't know the name of it, but it's the album from which the really terrific country/rock song "Gone" was released as a single. Gretchen Wilson is the hot new artist in country/rock. You might try her "Here for the Party" album. Staying with the country genre, if you like something more soulful, try Keith Urban's "Be Here", which I think is the album that has the hauntingly beautiful "Making Memories of Us" on it (the #1 country song now).
I'm not normally a big country music fan, but do like the country/rock stuff some people are doing lately. Other than Kelly, there's nothing in the pop genre that I like these days. And I hate the so-called urban music genre: rap, hip-hop and modern R&B.
I listen to pretty much everything, except, like you, I can't stand rap or hip-hop. I'm a HUGE Eric Clapton fan, though. I own both of his boxed sets (Crossroads 1 & 2) and almost every album he's ever released. So I guess I lean more toward classic rock and blues than anything else. But like I said, I listen to pretty much everything.
I might give Gretchen Wilson a try. She performed on some awards show a couple weeks ago and I liked what I heard (and saw--easy on the eyes is Miss Wilson :)