◇ image via WikipediaRuston Kelly
Ruston Kelly is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Sasha Alex Sloan and Kacey Musgraves. Those roots explain a lot about how Ruston Kelly arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jason Isbell, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Brian Fallon, American Aquarium and Morgan Wade, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Tim McGraw, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 11 connections around Ruston Kelly, reaching back through Sasha Alex Sloan and forward to Tim McGraw. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Ruston Samuel Kelly is an American singer-songwriter. After signing with the music publisher BMG Nashville in 2013, his song "Nashville Without You" appeared on Tim McGraw's album Two Lanes of Freedom. Following a record deal with Razor & Tie's Washington Square, he released his debut EP, Halloween, produced by Mike Mogis in 2017.
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Ruston Kelly connections
Ruston Kelly grew out of Sasha Alex Sloan and Kacey Musgraves, shares an orbit with Jason Isbell, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Brian Fallon and American Aquarium, went on to shape Tim McGraw. 11 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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