| Influences | The Carpenter family, Melvin Wine, Dock Boggs, Clarence "Tom" Ashley, Charlie Poole, Frank George, the Hammonds family, Henry Reed, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Carter Family, Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers, scratchy records and too many other pre-war blues, folk and country artists to list.
Slightly more modern influences include, but are not limited to Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Springsteen circa "Nebraska", Whiskeytown, Gillian Welch, Hank, Hasil Adkins, Jesse Sykes, M. Ward, Neko Case, the endless stream of Athens musicians and anyone else who sounds real. |