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Rusted Root is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Jerry Harrison and Peter Gabriel. Those roots explain a lot about how Rusted Root arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dave Matthews Band, Blues Traveler, O.A.R., Big Head Todd and the Monsters and Phish, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Altogether the chart holds 28 connections around Rusted Root, reaching back through Jerry Harrison. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Rusted Root is an American worldbeat rock band formed in the year 1990 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Michael Glabicki, Patrick Norman (bass), and Liz Berlin (percussion). The band got its start as the house band playing a weekly gig in Jack's Back Room on Pittsburgh's South Side. The band achieved fame in 1994 with its platinum-selling album When I Woke, which included the hit single "Send Me on My Way". The song has been featured prominently in many films and commercials. Rusted Root has sold more than three million albums. After releasing The Movement in 2012 and touring through 2015, the band went on an indefinite hiatus, with principal songwriter and vocalist Michael Glabicki forming the group Uprooted with former members of Rusted Root and continuing to tour with that group into the early 2020s.
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Rusted Root connections
Rusted Root grew out of Jerry Harrison and Peter Gabriel, shares an orbit with Dave Matthews Band, Blues Traveler, O.A.R. and Big Head Todd and the Monsters. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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