◇ image via WikipediaJoe Ely
Joe Ely is a Americana and Country act. Their sound grew out of Robert Earl Keen, Billy Joe Shaver, Freddy Fender and Woody Guthrie. Those roots explain a lot about how Joe Ely arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller, Doug Sahm and Jason Isbell, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into James McMurtry, London Calling, Combat Rock and The Clash, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Joe Ely, reaching back through Robert Earl Keen and forward to James McMurtry. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Joe Ely connections
Joe Ely grew out of Robert Earl Keen, Billy Joe Shaver, Freddy Fender and Woody Guthrie, shares an orbit with Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller, Doug Sahm and Jason Isbell, went on to shape James McMurtry, London Calling, Combat Rock and The Clash. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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