◇ image via WikipediaSara Watkins
Sara Watkins is a Folk act. Their sound grew out of Sarah Jarosz, SYML, John Prine, Gaby Moreno and Sierra Hull. Those roots explain a lot about how Sara Watkins arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Rodney Crowell, Eilen Jewell, Crooked Still, Jerry Douglas and Alison Krauss & Union Station, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into John Mayer, Jackson Browne, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann and Brian Wilson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Sara Watkins, reaching back through Sarah Jarosz and forward to John Mayer. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sara Watkins connections
Sara Watkins grew out of Sarah Jarosz, SYML, John Prine and Gaby Moreno, shares an orbit with Rodney Crowell, Eilen Jewell, Crooked Still and Jerry Douglas, went on to shape John Mayer, Jackson Browne, Fiona Apple and Aimee Mann. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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