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Levon Helm is a Country and Rock act. Their sound grew out of Sonny Landreth, Lazy Lester, Guy Davis, Comfortably Numb and Sonny Boy Williamson II. Those roots explain a lot about how Levon Helm arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as John Hartford, Rodney Crowell, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Wood Brothers and Pure Prairie League, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Levon, Jackie Greene, Howard Tate, Goodnight, Texas and The Felice Brothers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 48 connections around Levon Helm, reaching back through Sonny Landreth and forward to Levon. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Levon Helm connections
Levon Helm grew out of Sonny Landreth, Lazy Lester, Guy Davis and Comfortably Numb, shares an orbit with John Hartford, Rodney Crowell, The Marshall Tucker Band and The Wood Brothers, went on to shape Levon, Jackie Greene, Howard Tate and Goodnight, Texas. 48 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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