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Alabama Shakes is a Garage rock and House act. Their sound grew out of Lee Fields, Howler, Mumford & Sons, Led Zeppelin and James Brown. Those roots explain a lot about how Alabama Shakes arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Leon Bridges, Dan Auerbach, Michael Kiwanuka and Benjamin Booker, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Pickwick, Perfume Genius, Chinchilla, Okkervil River and Drake, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 46 connections around Alabama Shakes, reaching back through Lee Fields and forward to Pickwick. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Alabama Shakes connections
Alabama Shakes grew out of Lee Fields, Howler, Mumford & Sons and Led Zeppelin, shares an orbit with St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Leon Bridges, Dan Auerbach and Michael Kiwanuka, went on to shape Pickwick, Perfume Genius, Chinchilla and Okkervil River. 46 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Alabama Shakes
Sounds and acts that shaped Alabama Shakes.
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