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Great Lake Swimmers is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Neil Young, Will Oldham, Sufjan Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot and Gram Parsons. Those roots explain a lot about how Great Lake Swimmers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dan Mangan, Josh Ritter, Phosphorescent, The Barr Brothers and Ray LaMontagne, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Cadence Weapon, Elvis Presley, Serena Ryder and Akron/Family, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 41 connections around Great Lake Swimmers, reaching back through Neil Young and forward to Cadence Weapon. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian folk rock band from Wainfleet, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto.
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Great Lake Swimmers connections
Great Lake Swimmers grew out of Neil Young, Will Oldham, Sufjan Stevens and Gordon Lightfoot, shares an orbit with Dan Mangan, Josh Ritter, Phosphorescent and The Barr Brothers, went on to shape Cadence Weapon, Elvis Presley, Serena Ryder and Akron/Family. 41 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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