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Kate Rusby is a Folk act. Their sound grew out of Sarah Jarosz, Iris DeMent, The Kinks, Taylor Swift and Coldplay. Those roots explain a lot about how Kate Rusby arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Kirsty MacColl, The Staves, Bert Jansch, Eva Cassidy and Beth Orton, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ronan Keating, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 13 connections around Kate Rusby, reaching back through Sarah Jarosz and forward to Ronan Keating. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Kate Rusby connections
Kate Rusby grew out of Sarah Jarosz, Iris DeMent, The Kinks and Taylor Swift, shares an orbit with Kirsty MacColl, The Staves, Bert Jansch and Eva Cassidy, went on to shape Ronan Keating. 13 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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