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INFLUENCES: MY MOTHER-Josephine Sparkman Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Flamingos, The Coasters, Rogers & Hammerstein, Tchaikovski, Dvorak, Guy Warren/Kofi Ghanaba, Sam Cooke, Harry Belafonte, The Drifters, The Limeliters, The Kingston Trio, John & Alan Lomax, Booker T. [Jones] and the MGs-Steve Cropper and Donald (Duck)Dunn, Marty Robbins, The Journeymen, Mrs. STORY (my former banjo teacher), Donovan (Leitch), Pete Seeger, EARL SCRUGGS, Gary "U.S." Bonds and The Church Street Five, The Beatles, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Dionne Warwick, Bob Dylan, The Animals, The Rolling Stones (esp. B. Jones), The Kinks, The Beau Brummels, Them (even Van Morrison), Wilson Picket, James Jamerson, The Supremes, Martha & the Vandellas, Jr. Walker and the All Stars, The Byrds, The Knickerbockers, The Zombies, The Lovin' Spoonful, The YARDBIRDS [all] (JEFF BECK, KEITH RELF, Jimmy Page, Paul Samwell-Smith, The WHO, The Temptations, SLIM HARPO, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, The Mothers of Invention, FRANK ZAPPA, The Doors, Aretha Franklin, Sam & Dave, Percy Sledge, Dyke & The Blazers, Canned Heat, Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield), Howling Wolf (Chester Burnett), Willie Dixon, B.B. King, Little Walter, Paul Butterfield & Blues Band, The Blues Project, Cream (even Eric Clapton), Otis Redding, Otis Rush, WOLFMAN JACK, The Buffalo Springfield, THE FUGS, Ravi Shankar, Jimi Hendrix (and the Experience), Steppenwolf, It's A Beautiful Day, Linda Hargrove, Creedence Clearwater Revival, LED ZEPPELIN, PINK FLOYD, Billion Dollar Babies (Alice Cooper band without Alice), Cat Stevens, Crosby Stills & Nash(and sometimes Young), Dave Brubeck; Abdul Wahhab and Umm Kulthum; War (esp. LEE OSKAR); Ron Root (Stowe, OH); Earth, Wind, and Fire; Doobie Brothers; Commander Cody & the Lost Planet Airmen, Roy Orbison, Steve Miller Band, I.P. Sweat and Joey Long, ZZ Top, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Hawkwind, Billy Joel, Jim Croce, Heart, GARY NUMAN (& Tubeway Army), THE STRANGLERS (esp. Hugh Cornwell), Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Bob Marley & the Wailers, A Flock of Seagulls, Stanley Clarke, Gary Lyda, The Cars, AC/DC, Van Halen, Foreigner, The Psychedelic Furs, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, Marshall Tucker Band, Hank Bell and Tommy "the Shadow" Haines, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Paycheck, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Brian Adams, Eddy Grant, The Fixx, Los Lobos, Tone Loc, The Solid Senders (Austin, TX,late 1990's), The B-52's, Funf Sterne Deluxe, Kraftwerk, Django Reinhardt, Feargal O'Bearra, The Holy Modal Rounders, Kurtis Futch, Charlie Poole, August Heinrich Hoffman von Fallersleben, Udo Lindenberg, P.O.D., Steve Sparkman, (this list is NOT exhaustive, and I will eventually remember the rest of them. A couple of the names on here are NEGATIVE or MIXED influences, and they would surprise you! The ones you never heard of before are people I have played with, or foreigners who should be better known, and who have influenced me. The list is GENERALLY, but not exclusively, chronological order, so you can get an idea of what I was listening to at a particular time, if you know musical history. But I also caught on to some folks really late.