| Influences | In no particular order: Johnny Cash, Otis Redding, Leadbelly, Son House, Samuel Clemmons ( Mark Twain), Martin Sexton, Sam Cooke, Mississippi John Hurt, J. M. Basquiat, Nelson Mandella, Richie Havens, Willie Nelson, Martin Sexton, Doc Watson, Ryan Adams, Ben Harper, Elizabeth Cotton, Cat Stephens, Hank Williams, Stevie Wonder, Janis Joplin, Roy Orbison, Chagall, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, J.M. Barrie, George Jones, Jomo Kenyatta, The Kinks, Joe Cocker, Robert Johnson, Andy Warhol, Paul Gauguin, Jim Croce, Merle Haggard, Billie Holiday, R. Van Zandt, B.B. King, Jackson Pollock, The Band, Warren Haynes, John Prine, James Taylor, John Wayne, Ansel Adams, Pablo Picasso, James Dean, Marvin Gaye, Vann Morisson, Bob Marley and every last Wailer, Marcel DuChamp and the whole DaDa movement, Jeff Buckley, Clarence Carter, CCR, Jack Kerouac, Black Beard...I've just realized that there is no possible way for my mind to grasp the holistic shape of my influences, so i am going to leave it open-ended for the time... |