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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is a Blues and World music act. Their sound grew out of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson and Dizzy Gillespie. Those roots explain a lot about how Smithsonian Folkways Recordings arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Sofia Gubaidulina, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Elizabeth Mitchell, Dave Van Ronk, Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan and Rhiannon Giddens, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, reaching back through Pete Seeger and forward to Elizabeth Mitchell. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Smithsonian Folkways RecordingsPete SeegerWoody GuthrieDuke EllingtonJames P. JohnsonDizzy GillespieJohn CageCharles IvesElizabeth MitchellDave Van RonkPeter, Paul and MaryBob DylanRhiannon GiddensAllison RussellSofia Gubaidulina

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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings connections

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings grew out of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Duke Ellington and James P. Johnson, shares an orbit with Sofia Gubaidulina, went on to shape Elizabeth Mitchell, Dave Van Ronk, Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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