◇ image via WikipediaKinky Friedman
Kinky Friedman is a Country act. Their sound grew out of Gram Parsons, The Band, Eagles, Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan. Those roots explain a lot about how Kinky Friedman arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Chip Taylor, Jerry Jeff Walker, Randy Travis, Rodney Crowell and Doug Sahm, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Buddy Miller, Kelly Willis, Nelson Mandela, James McMurtry and Charlie Robison, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Kinky Friedman, reaching back through Gram Parsons and forward to Buddy Miller. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Kinky Friedman connections
Kinky Friedman grew out of Gram Parsons, The Band, Eagles and Merle Haggard, shares an orbit with Chip Taylor, Jerry Jeff Walker, Randy Travis and Rodney Crowell, went on to shape Buddy Miller, Kelly Willis, Nelson Mandela and James McMurtry. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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