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Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Robert Johnson, Leonard Cohen and Taj Mahal. Those roots explain a lot about how Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The John Butler Trio, Donavon Frankenreiter, Ray LaMontagne, Jack Johnson and G. Love & Special Sauce, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Jack Johnson, The Funk Brothers, Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 43 connections around Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, reaching back through Bob Marley and forward to Jack Johnson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Benjamin Charles Harper is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae, and rock music, and he is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism. He has released twelve studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records, and has toured internationally.
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Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals connections
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals grew out of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Robert Johnson and Leonard Cohen, shares an orbit with The John Butler Trio, Donavon Frankenreiter, Ray LaMontagne and Jack Johnson, went on to shape Jack Johnson, The Funk Brothers, Willie Nelson and Eric Clapton. 43 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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