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Doc Watson is a Blues and Country act. Their catalogue also touches Folk and Gospel. Their sound grew out of Elizabeth Cotten, Tom Paxton, Jean Ritchie, Carter Family and The Carter Family. Those roots explain a lot about how Doc Watson arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as John Hartford, The Dillards, Ola Belle Reed, The SteelDrivers and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Marisa Anderson, Sam Bush, Meat Puppets, Marty Stuart and Mark O'Connor, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Doc Watson, reaching back through Elizabeth Cotten and forward to Marisa Anderson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Doc Watson connections
Doc Watson grew out of Elizabeth Cotten, Tom Paxton, Jean Ritchie and Carter Family, shares an orbit with John Hartford, The Dillards, Ola Belle Reed and The SteelDrivers, went on to shape Marisa Anderson, Sam Bush, Meat Puppets and Marty Stuart. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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