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Little Steven is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Ravi Shankar, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison and The Dave Clark Five. Those roots explain a lot about how Little Steven arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Nils Lofgren, Willie Nile and The J. Geils Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ronnie Spector, Nancy Sinatra, Pearl Jam, Southside Johnny and Majek Fashek, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 38 connections around Little Steven, reaching back through Ravi Shankar and forward to Ronnie Spector. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Steven Van Zandt, also known as Little Steven or Miami Steve, is an American musician and actor. He is a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, in which he plays guitar and mandolin. He has appeared in several television drama series, including as Silvio Dante in The Sopranos (1999–2007) and as Frank Tagliano/Giovanni "Johnny" Henriksen in Lilyhammer (2012–2014). Van Zandt has his own solo band called Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, intermittently active since the 1980s.
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Little Steven connections
Little Steven grew out of Ravi Shankar, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and George Harrison, shares an orbit with Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Nils Lofgren and Willie Nile, went on to shape Ronnie Spector, Nancy Sinatra, Pearl Jam and Southside Johnny. 38 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Little Steven
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