◇ image via WikipediaBruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn is a Folk act. Their sound grew out of Raffi, Superchunk, Youssou N’Dour and Mississippi John Hurt. Those roots explain a lot about how Bruce Cockburn arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Leo Kottke, Gordon Lightfoot, Anders Osborne, Joan Armatrading and Ron Sexsmith, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sarah McLachlan, David Nail, Dan Hill, k.d. lang and The Esquires, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Bruce Cockburn, reaching back through Raffi and forward to Sarah McLachlan. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Bruce Cockburn connections
Bruce Cockburn grew out of Raffi, Superchunk, Youssou N’Dour and Mississippi John Hurt, shares an orbit with Leo Kottke, Gordon Lightfoot, Anders Osborne and Joan Armatrading, went on to shape Sarah McLachlan, David Nail, Dan Hill and k.d. lang. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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