◇ image via WikipediaNolan Porter
Nolan Porter is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Van Morrison, Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones, Randy Newman and Frank Zappa. Those roots explain a lot about how Nolan Porter arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Edwin Starr, Baby Huey, Shuggie Otis, O.V. Wright and Gloria Ann Taylor, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Paul Weller, Little Feat and Joy Division, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Nolan Porter, reaching back through Van Morrison and forward to Paul Weller. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Nolan Porter connections
Nolan Porter grew out of Van Morrison, Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones and Randy Newman, shares an orbit with Edwin Starr, Baby Huey, Shuggie Otis and O.V. Wright, went on to shape Paul Weller, Little Feat and Joy Division. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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