◇ image via WikipediaHank Williams
Hank Williams is a Blues and Country act. Their sound grew out of Roy Acuff, Jakob Dylan, Jimmie Davis and Fred Rose. Those roots explain a lot about how Hank Williams arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Paycheck, Roger Miller, Johnny Horton and Buck Owens, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Lorenzo Antonio, Anita Carter, Kevin Skinner, Now, There Was a Song! and Janis Martin, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 130 connections around Hank Williams, reaching back through Roy Acuff and forward to Lorenzo Antonio. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Hank Williams connections
Hank Williams grew out of Roy Acuff, Jakob Dylan, Jimmie Davis and Fred Rose, shares an orbit with Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Paycheck, Roger Miller and Johnny Horton, went on to shape Lorenzo Antonio, Anita Carter, Kevin Skinner and Now, There Was a Song!. 130 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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