◇ image via WikipediaJoe Dassin
Joe Dassin is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Toto Cutugno, Roza Rymbayeva, Tony Joe White, Elizabeth Cotten and Steve Goodman. Those roots explain a lot about how Joe Dassin arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Francis Cabrel, Eddy Mitchell, Mireille Mathieu, Sacha Distel and Calogero, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Camélia Jordana, Alla Pugacheva, Eric Woolfson and So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around Joe Dassin, reaching back through Toto Cutugno and forward to Camélia Jordana. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Joseph Ira Dassin was an American singer-songwriter. He sang in multiple languages but found his greatest successes in France and the French-speaking world. In total, he sold nearly 25 million records worldwide.
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Joe Dassin connections
Joe Dassin grew out of Toto Cutugno, Roza Rymbayeva, Tony Joe White and Elizabeth Cotten, shares an orbit with Francis Cabrel, Eddy Mitchell, Mireille Mathieu and Sacha Distel, went on to shape Camélia Jordana, Alla Pugacheva, Eric Woolfson and So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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