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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 I'm With Her, Alison Krauss & Union Station, The Wailin' Jennys, Crooked Still and Molly Tuttle, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Darol Anger, Béla Fleck, Coalesce, Fiona Apple and Lyle Lovett, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 28 connections around Nickel Creek, reaching back through Pavement and forward to Darol Anger. 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 I'm With Her, Alison Krauss & Union Station, The Wailin' Jennys and Crooked Still, went on to shape Darol Anger, Béla Fleck, Coalesce and Fiona Apple. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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