◇ image via WikipediaPorter Wagoner
Porter Wagoner is a Country act. Their sound grew out of Chet Atkins, Jack Clement, Carl Smith, Tom Paxton and Johnny Cash. Those roots explain a lot about how Porter Wagoner arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bobby Bare, Dolly Parton, Kitty Wells, Dave Dudley and Gene Watson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dolly Parton, Norman Greenbaum, I Will Always Love You, Spirit in the Sky and James Brown, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Porter Wagoner, reaching back through Chet Atkins and forward to Dolly Parton. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Porter Wagoner connections
Porter Wagoner grew out of Chet Atkins, Jack Clement, Carl Smith and Tom Paxton, shares an orbit with Bobby Bare, Dolly Parton, Kitty Wells and Dave Dudley, went on to shape Dolly Parton, Norman Greenbaum, I Will Always Love You and Spirit in the Sky. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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