◇ image via WikipediaColin Meloy
Colin Meloy is a Indie rock act. Their sound grew out of The Replacements, Shirley Collins, Laura Veirs, Jackson C. Frank and American Music Club. Those roots explain a lot about how Colin Meloy arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Mountain Goats, Iron & Wine, Loudon Wainwright III, The Tallest Man on Earth and José González, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Laura Veirs and The Thermals, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Colin Meloy, reaching back through The Replacements and forward to Laura Veirs. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Colin Meloy grew out of The Replacements, Shirley Collins, Laura Veirs and Jackson C. Frank, shares an orbit with The Mountain Goats, Iron & Wine, Loudon Wainwright III and The Tallest Man on Earth, went on to shape Laura Veirs and The Thermals. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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