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Townes Van Zandt is a Blues and Country act. Their catalogue also touches Folk. Their sound grew out of The Rolling Stones, Sacred Bones Records, Blaze Foley, Kelly Joe Phelps and Lightnin' Hopkins. Those roots explain a lot about how Townes Van Zandt arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jerry Jeff Walker, Jackson C. Frank, Songs: Ohia, Justin Townes Earle and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Calvin Russell, Cloakroom, The White Buffalo, Leon Bridges and Steve Shelley, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 69 connections around Townes Van Zandt, reaching back through The Rolling Stones and forward to Calvin Russell. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Townes Van Zandt grew out of The Rolling Stones, Sacred Bones Records, Blaze Foley and Kelly Joe Phelps, shares an orbit with Jerry Jeff Walker, Jackson C. Frank, Songs: Ohia and Justin Townes Earle, went on to shape Calvin Russell, Cloakroom, The White Buffalo and Leon Bridges. 69 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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