Now, in addition to playing instruments, they write much of their own music, and claim as their musical influences performers as diverse as Elvis Costello, Prince and Johnny Cash.
Certainly there had been a few artists in rock prior to this who'd gone further than idle interview chat about influences, performers whose music came attached with a sort of invisible reading and movie-watching list: Bowie, obviously, with songs about Andy Warhol and extremist performance artist Chris Burden Roxy Musicc, to a slightly less overt degree.
In the 1960s the Living Theatre inspired a generation of performers throughout the world, and Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Laboratory Theatre influenced performers who had never been to Europe or seen him work firsthand.
While it is no surprise that MC Records has never been acknowledged by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, it is remarkable that Odetta -- a 1999 recipient of the National Medal of Arts who has influenced performers from Bob Dylan to Jewel -- has never received a Grammy nomination in her 50-year career.
His closing number is an Al Jolson medley in tribute to the fact that "even a century later" Jolson is still influencing performers.
Through Hendrix, there is the influence on performers such as Prince, among many others.
Following their hit single "Whip It" (1980), however, the band's popularity declined, though they continued to influence other performers.
Troupes traveled to Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sunda, and Java, where their melodramatic plays found large audiences and influenced local performers of sandiwara, ketoprak, and ludruk.
His body of work is too piecemeal, too lacking in memorable big splashes (I think we can exclude Up Pompeii!), and too unlikely to influence other performers (how could one aspire to be like Frankie Howerd?).
Part of Sefton's strategy has been to show how established musicians have influenced younger performers: Van Dyke Parks (the one-time Beach Boys lyricist) worked with Silverchair's Daniel Johns on two albums, and the two will perform together in Adelaide – along with singer Kimbra (best known for her recent Grammy-award-winning duet with Gotye, Somebody That I used to Know).
By this time, Drake had discovered the British and American folk music scenes, and was influenced by performers such as Bob Dylan, Josh White and Phil Ochs.
