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Summary
Influencers
- Skip Spence
- Bob Dylan
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
- Roy Orbison
- Howlin' Wolf
- Thelonious Monk
- Jimmy Scott
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Charles Bukowski
- Harry Partch
- Jack Kerouac
- Mose Allison
- Randy Newman
- Charles Brown
- Louis Armstrong
- Memphis Slim
- Muddy Waters
- Victor Feldman
- Wolfman Jack
- Allen Ginsberg
- Ken Nordine
- Moondog
- Slim Gaillard
- Van Dyke Parks
- Kurt Weill
- William S. Burroughs
- Percy Mayfield
Followers
- Elvis Costello
- American Music Club
- Victoria Williams
- Giant Sand
- Elliott Smith
- Freedy Johnston
- Joe Henry
- Mark Lanegan
- Chuck Prophet
- Cold War Kids
- Deer Tick
- Eels
- The Low Anthem
- Pierce Edens
- Jim Carroll
- Nick Cave
- Morphine
- M. Ward
- John McCullagh
- PJ Harvey
- Rickie Lee Jones
- T-Bone Burnett
- The Pogues
- Tindersticks
- Calexico
- Crime & The City Solution
- Dave Alvin
- David + David
- Gallon Drunk
- Grant-Lee Phillips
- John Parish
- Los Lobos
- Mitchell Froom
- Swans
- Andrew Bird
- Crooked Fingers
- Ed Harcourt
- Elvis Perkins
- Firewater
- G. Love & Special Sauce
- Gomez
- Johnny Dowd
- The Magnetic Fields
- Mike Watt
- Primus
- Regina Spektor
- Ryan Bingham
- Sarah McLachlan
- Sparklehorse
- The Gaslight Anthem
- The Handsome Family
- The Walkmen
- Thin White Rope
- DeVotchKa
- Donavon Frankenreiter
- Frank Tedesso
- Hawksley Workman
- Hayden
- Jim Allen
- Joan of Arc
- Man Man
- Men & Volts
- Opal Foxx
- Richard Julian
- Songs: Ohia
- Aurelio Valle
- Ebba Forsberg
- George Ezra
- Jack Garratt
- Jacob Bellens
- Paper Route
- Rachel Ries
- Sean Rowe
- Willis Earl Beal
- Soledad Brothers
- Chris Cornell
- Dustin Kensrue
- Modest Mouse
- Admiral Fallow
- A.A. Bondy
- The Mars Volta
- Holly Cole
- Nick Mulvey
- William Elliott Whitmore
- Tom Morello
- Tricky
- John Ralston
- The Gutter Twins
- Jolie Holland
- Ward White
- Jeff Klein
- Jesse Malin
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