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Crooked Fingers

Crooked Fingers is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen and Queen. Those roots explain a lot about how Crooked Fingers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The New Pornographers, Wintersleep, Superchunk, Josh Ritter and Saintseneca, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Azure Ray and The National, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Crooked Fingers, reaching back through Neil Diamond and forward to Azure Ray. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Crooked FingersNeil DiamondBruce SpringsteenQueenAzure RayThe NationalThe New PornographersWintersleepSuperchunkJosh RitterSaintsenecaBuck MeekRatboyShearwater

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Crooked Fingers connections

Crooked Fingers grew out of Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen and Queen, shares an orbit with The New Pornographers, Wintersleep, Superchunk and Josh Ritter, went on to shape Azure Ray and The National. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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