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Willie Nelson

Americana

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Willie Nelson is a Americana and Blues act. Their catalogue also touches Country, Pop and Rock. Their sound grew out of A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall, Reggie Young, Mae Boren Axton, Orville Peck and Blaze Foley. Those roots explain a lot about how Willie Nelson arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jessi Colter, Dolly Parton, Rodney Crowell, Glen Campbell and Buck Owens, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Billy Ray Cyrus, Cody Johnson, Orville Peck, Los Lonely Boys and Mark Chesnutt, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 172 connections around Willie Nelson, reaching back through A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall and forward to Billy Ray Cyrus. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.