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Big Red Machine

Big Red Machine is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The National, Bon Iver and Anaïs Mitchell. Those roots explain a lot about how Big Red Machine arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as boygenius, Better Oblivion Community Center, The War on Drugs, Lucy Dacus and Local Natives, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Taylor Swift, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 18 connections around Big Red Machine, reaching back through The National and forward to Taylor Swift. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

Big Red Machine is an American indie folk band that began as a collaboration between musicians Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon. The band is named after the nickname for the dominant 1970s Cincinnati Reds baseball team, which won the 1976 World Series in Dessner's birth year.

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Big Red MachineThe NationalBon IverAnaïs MitchellTaylor SwiftboygeniusBetter Oblivion Comm…The War on DrugsLucy DacusLocal NativesBig ThiefBlondshellThe New Pornographers

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Big Red Machine connections

Big Red Machine grew out of The National, Bon Iver and Anaïs Mitchell, shares an orbit with boygenius, Better Oblivion Community Center, The War on Drugs and Lucy Dacus, went on to shape Taylor Swift. 18 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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