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Levon Helm is a Country and Rock act. Their sound grew out of Booker T. Jones, The Staple Singers, Sonny Landreth, Lazy Lester and Guy Davis. Those roots explain a lot about how Levon Helm arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Delaney & Bonnie, John Hartford, Rodney Crowell, Jerry Jeff Walker and Justin Townes Earle, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Howard Johnson, Whitney, Jackie Greene, Howard Tate and Goodnight, Texas, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 52 connections around Levon Helm, reaching back through Booker T. Jones and forward to Howard Johnson. 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 Booker T. Jones, The Staple Singers, Sonny Landreth and Lazy Lester, shares an orbit with Delaney & Bonnie, John Hartford, Rodney Crowell and Jerry Jeff Walker, went on to shape Howard Johnson, Whitney, Jackie Greene and Howard Tate. 52 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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