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Restless Heart is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Bellamy Brothers, Little Texas, Exile and Kathy Mattea. Those roots explain a lot about how Restless Heart arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dan Seals, Kenny Rogers, Billy Dean, Keith Whitley and Earl Thomas Conley, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ricky Skaggs, The Pointer Sisters, Alabama, The Judds and Kenny Rogers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 41 connections around Restless Heart, reaching back through The Bellamy Brothers and forward to Ricky Skaggs. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Restless Heart was an American country music band from Nashville, Tennessee. The band's longest-tenured lineup consisted of Larry Stewart, John Dittrich, Paul Gregg, Dave Innis, and Greg Jennings. Record producer Tim DuBois assembled the band in 1984 to record demos and chose Verlon Thompson as the original lead singer, but Thompson was replaced by Stewart in this role before the band had recorded any material. Between 1984 and 1998, Restless Heart recorded for RCA Records Nashville. They released the albums Restless Heart, Wheels, Big Dreams in a Small Town, and Fast Movin' Train in the 1980s.
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Restless Heart connections
Restless Heart grew out of The Bellamy Brothers, Little Texas, Exile and Kathy Mattea, shares an orbit with Dan Seals, Kenny Rogers, Billy Dean and Keith Whitley, went on to shape Ricky Skaggs, The Pointer Sisters, Alabama and The Judds. 41 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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