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Recent Songs is a Folk act. Their sound grew out of Joni Mitchell and Phil Spector. Those roots explain a lot about how Recent Songs arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Emmylou Harris, Martha Wainwright and Nana Mouskouri, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 5 connections around Recent Songs, reaching back through Joni Mitchell and forward to Emmylou Harris. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Recent Songs is the sixth studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in 1979. Produced by Cohen alongside Henry Lewy, it was a return to his normal acoustic folk music sound after the Phil Spector-driven experimentation of Death of a Ladies' Man, but now with many jazz and other influences.
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Recent Songs grew out of Joni Mitchell and Phil Spector, went on to shape Emmylou Harris, Martha Wainwright and Nana Mouskouri. 5 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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