◇ image via WikipediaStan Rogers
Stan Rogers is a Folk act. They run in the same orbit as Great Big Sea, Gordon Lightfoot, Pete Seeger, The Irish Rovers and The Mountain Goats, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Real McKenzies, The Dreadnoughts and Raffi, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 13 connections around Stan Rogers and forward to The Real McKenzies. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Stanley Allison Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter who sang traditional-sounding songs frequently inspired by Canadian history and the working people's daily lives, especially from the fishing villages of the Maritime provinces and, later, the farms of the Canadian prairies and Great Lakes. He died in a fire aboard Air Canada Flight 797, grounded at the Greater Cincinnati Airport, at the age of 33.
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Stan Rogers connections
Stan Rogers shares an orbit with Great Big Sea, Gordon Lightfoot, Pete Seeger and The Irish Rovers, went on to shape The Real McKenzies, The Dreadnoughts and Raffi. 13 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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