◇ image via WikipediaJess Williamson
Jess Williamson is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Waxahatchee. Those roots explain a lot about how Jess Williamson arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Waxahatchee, Julie Byrne, Sharon Van Etten, Squirrel Flower and Kevin Morby, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Waxahatchee, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 15 connections around Jess Williamson, reaching back through Waxahatchee and forward to Waxahatchee. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Jess Williamson is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles.
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Jess Williamson grew out of Waxahatchee, shares an orbit with Waxahatchee, Julie Byrne, Sharon Van Etten and Squirrel Flower, went on to shape Waxahatchee. 15 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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