Edie Brickell and New Bohemians

Edie Brickell and New Bohemians is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Bo Diddley. Those roots explain a lot about how Edie Brickell and New Bohemians arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as 10,000 Maniacs, Sheryl Crow, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Concrete Blonde and World Party, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Paul Simon and Pearl Jam, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, reaching back through Bo Diddley and forward to Paul Simon. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.