◇ image via WikipediaTed Hawkins
Ted Hawkins is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Sam Cooke, Robert Cray and The Robert Cray Band. Those roots explain a lot about how Ted Hawkins arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dave Van Ronk, Michael Hurley, Loudon Wainwright III, Karen Dalton and Bobby Charles, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into James McMurtry, Mary Gauthier and Kasey Chambers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Ted Hawkins, reaching back through Sam Cooke and forward to James McMurtry. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Ted Hawkins was an American singer-songwriter born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He split his time between his adopted hometown of Venice Beach, California, where he was a mostly anonymous street performer, and Europe and Australia, where he and his songs were better known and well received in clubs and small concert halls.
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Ted Hawkins connections
Ted Hawkins grew out of Sam Cooke, Robert Cray and The Robert Cray Band, shares an orbit with Dave Van Ronk, Michael Hurley, Loudon Wainwright III and Karen Dalton, went on to shape James McMurtry, Mary Gauthier and Kasey Chambers. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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- Daniel Norgrenartist
- Joan Baezartist
- Skip Jamesartist
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- Vic Chesnuttartist
- Bobbie Gentryartist
- Roy Harperartist
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