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Matt Costa

Folk
Folk

Matt Costa is a Folk act. Their sound grew out of Greg Laswell, The Little Ones and Animal Liberation Orchestra. Those roots explain a lot about how Matt Costa arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Donavon Frankenreiter, The Beautiful Girls, Jack Johnson, Ray LaMontagne and The John Butler Trio, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Oasis, G. Love & Special Sauce, Death Cab for Cutie, Jack Johnson and Modest Mouse, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Matt Costa, reaching back through Greg Laswell and forward to Oasis. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Matt CostaGreg LaswellThe Little OnesAnimal Liberation Or…OasisG. Love & Special Sa…Death Cab for CutieJack JohnsonModest MouseDonavon FrankenreiterThe Beautiful GirlsJack JohnsonRay LaMontagneThe John Butler TrioIron & WineBen Harper & The Inn…Greg Laswell

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Matt Costa connections

Matt Costa grew out of Greg Laswell, The Little Ones and Animal Liberation Orchestra, shares an orbit with Donavon Frankenreiter, The Beautiful Girls, Jack Johnson and Ray LaMontagne, went on to shape Oasis, G. Love & Special Sauce, Death Cab for Cutie and Jack Johnson. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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