◇ image via WikipediaEllen McIlwaine
Ellen McIlwaine is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Tracy Nelson, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Professor Longhair and Muddy Waters. Those roots explain a lot about how Ellen McIlwaine arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Karen Dalton, Terry Reid, Nick Drake, Judee Sill and Fred Neil, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into David Holmes, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Ellen McIlwaine, reaching back through Tracy Nelson and forward to David Holmes. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Ellen McIlwaine grew out of Tracy Nelson, Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Professor Longhair, shares an orbit with Karen Dalton, Terry Reid, Nick Drake and Judee Sill, went on to shape David Holmes. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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