◇ image via WikipediaPaul Kelly
Paul Kelly is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Junior Murvin, Neil Finn and Slim Dusty. Those roots explain a lot about how Paul Kelly arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Powderfinger, You Am I, Australian Crawl, The Whitlams and The Screaming Jets, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Middle Kids, Dan Sultan, Liam Finn and Electric Fields, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 19 connections around Paul Kelly, reaching back through Junior Murvin and forward to Middle Kids. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Paul Kelly connections
Paul Kelly grew out of Junior Murvin, Neil Finn and Slim Dusty, shares an orbit with Powderfinger, You Am I, Australian Crawl and The Whitlams, went on to shape Middle Kids, Dan Sultan, Liam Finn and Electric Fields. 19 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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