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Punch Brothers is a Country act. Their sound grew out of Gillian Welch, Tony Rice, Jesse Fuller and The Milk Carton Kids. Those roots explain a lot about how Punch Brothers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Milk Carton Kids, Sam Bush, Crooked Still, Jerry Douglas and The Arcadian Wild, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sarah Jarosz and Goodnight, Texas, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 17 connections around Punch Brothers, reaching back through Gillian Welch and forward to Sarah Jarosz. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Punch Brothers connections
Punch Brothers grew out of Gillian Welch, Tony Rice, Jesse Fuller and The Milk Carton Kids, shares an orbit with The Milk Carton Kids, Sam Bush, Crooked Still and Jerry Douglas, went on to shape Sarah Jarosz and Goodnight, Texas. 17 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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