◇ image via WikipediaThe Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Brent Cobb, Player, Joey Scarbury, The Common Linnets and Brooks & Dunn. Those roots explain a lot about how The Oak Ridge Boys arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Johnny Lee, Conway Twitty, Barbara Mandrell, The Statler Brothers and Earl Thomas Conley, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Marisa Anderson, The White Stripes, Shooter Jennings, Joe Walsh and Patti LaBelle, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 30 connections around The Oak Ridge Boys, reaching back through Brent Cobb and forward to Marisa Anderson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Oak Ridge Boys connections
The Oak Ridge Boys grew out of Brent Cobb, Player, Joey Scarbury and The Common Linnets, shares an orbit with Johnny Lee, Conway Twitty, Barbara Mandrell and The Statler Brothers, went on to shape Marisa Anderson, The White Stripes, Shooter Jennings and Joe Walsh. 30 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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