◇ image via WikipediaStealers Wheel
Stealers Wheel is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Geoff Emerick. Those roots explain a lot about how Stealers Wheel arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Gerry Rafferty, Norman Greenbaum, Looking Glass, George Baker Selection and The Guess Who, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Grace Potter, Leiber-Stoller and Badger, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around Stealers Wheel, reaching back through Geoff Emerick and forward to Grace Potter. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Stealers Wheel were a Scottish folk rock band formed in 1972 in Paisley, Scotland, by former school friends Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty. Their best-known hit is "Stuck in the Middle with You". The band broke up in 1975 and re-formed briefly in 2008.
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Stealers Wheel connections
Stealers Wheel grew out of Geoff Emerick, shares an orbit with Gerry Rafferty, Norman Greenbaum, Looking Glass and George Baker Selection, went on to shape Grace Potter, Leiber-Stoller and Badger. 33 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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