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Nickel Creek is a Country act. Their sound grew out of Pavement, Dave Matthews and Hootie & The Blowfish. Those roots explain a lot about how Nickel Creek arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Alison Krauss & Union Station, Crooked Still, The Milk Carton Kids, Sam Bush and The Arcadian Wild, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Béla Fleck, Coalesce, Darol Anger, Fiona Apple and Lyle Lovett, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Nickel Creek, reaching back through Pavement and forward to Béla Fleck. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Nickel Creek connections
Nickel Creek grew out of Pavement, Dave Matthews and Hootie & The Blowfish, shares an orbit with Alison Krauss & Union Station, Crooked Still, The Milk Carton Kids and Sam Bush, went on to shape Béla Fleck, Coalesce, Darol Anger and Fiona Apple. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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