Danny Thompson
Danny Thompson is a Blues and Folk act. Their sound grew out of Alexis Korner, Graham Coxon and John Renbourn. Those roots explain a lot about how Danny Thompson arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Dave Swarbrick, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Incredible String Band, Pino Palladino, Richard Thompson, John Martyn and Marianne Faithfull, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around Danny Thompson, reaching back through Alexis Korner and forward to The Incredible String Band. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Danny Thompson connections
Danny Thompson grew out of Alexis Korner, Graham Coxon and John Renbourn, shares an orbit with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Dave Swarbrick, went on to shape The Incredible String Band, Pino Palladino, Richard Thompson and John Martyn. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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