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Townes Van Zandt is a Blues and Country act. Their catalogue also touches Folk. Their sound grew out of Sacred Bones Records, Blaze Foley, Kelly Joe Phelps, Lightnin' Hopkins and Elvis Presley. Those roots explain a lot about how Townes Van Zandt arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Songs: Ohia, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Palace Music, Fred Neil and Uncle Tupelo, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The White Buffalo, Justin Townes Earle, Elizabeth Cook, The Avett Brothers and Hurray For The Riff Raff, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 64 connections around Townes Van Zandt, reaching back through Sacred Bones Records and forward to The White Buffalo. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Townes Van Zandt connections
Townes Van Zandt grew out of Sacred Bones Records, Blaze Foley, Kelly Joe Phelps and Lightnin' Hopkins, shares an orbit with Songs: Ohia, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Palace Music and Fred Neil, went on to shape The White Buffalo, Justin Townes Earle, Elizabeth Cook and The Avett Brothers. 64 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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