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The Milk Carton Kids is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Gaby Moreno, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian and Shovels & Rope. Those roots explain a lot about how The Milk Carton Kids arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Josh Ritter, Gregory Alan Isakov, The Civil Wars, John Craigie and Nickel Creek, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Buddy Miller, Joe Purdy, Sarah Jarosz, Old Crow Medicine Show and The Lumineers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around The Milk Carton Kids, reaching back through Gaby Moreno and forward to Buddy Miller. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
The Milk Carton Kids are an American indie folk duo consisting of singer-guitarists Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan. The duo hails from Eagle Rock, Los Angeles. They began making music together in early 2011 and have recorded and released six albums. Their first two albums were released free of charge online. They were featured on the Peacock TV show Girls5Eva with their song, New York Lonely Boy. Their instrumental and vocal style has been likened to that of Simon and Garfunkel.
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The Milk Carton Kids connections
The Milk Carton Kids grew out of Gaby Moreno, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian and Shovels & Rope, shares an orbit with Josh Ritter, Gregory Alan Isakov, The Civil Wars and John Craigie, went on to shape Buddy Miller, Joe Purdy, Sarah Jarosz and Old Crow Medicine Show. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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