◇ image via WikipediaJoan Osborne
Joan Osborne is a Folk act. Their sound grew out of Blues Traveler, Chris Whitley, Jeff Buckley, The Funk Brothers and Willie Dixon. Those roots explain a lot about how Joan Osborne arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Sheryl Crow, Jewel, 10,000 Maniacs, Sophie B. Hawkins and Meredith Brooks, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Meg Myers, Anouk, Joan Franka, Michael Franti and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around Joan Osborne, reaching back through Blues Traveler and forward to Meg Myers. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Joan Osborne connections
Joan Osborne grew out of Blues Traveler, Chris Whitley, Jeff Buckley and The Funk Brothers, shares an orbit with Sheryl Crow, Jewel, 10,000 Maniacs and Sophie B. Hawkins, went on to shape Meg Myers, Anouk, Joan Franka and Michael Franti. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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