Rob’s Influences
Musicians are often asked who their musical influences are. As I was putting together this list, I realized that my influences go far beyond other musicians, although of those there are many. Here’s an attempt at a comprehensive list of the people that have influenced my music and my life, which in turn influences my music:
God
Carrie
My Family
The Beatles
Radiohead
C.S. Lewis
Bob Dylan
Akira Kurosawa
The Grateful Dead
John Wooden
Bela Bartok
J.R.R. Tolkien
Igor Stravinsky
Miles Davis
Bud & Joyce Leander
Elvis Costello
Charles Dickens
Greg Laurie
Tears For Fears
Billy Preston
Larry Norman
Johnny Cash
Ray Charles
Thrice
Mark Twain
Tony Dungy
McCoy Tyner
Matt & Chariya Bissonette
Oasis
Joe Montana
The Flaming Lips
Bela Fleck
Pink Floyd
Kent & Gulni Leander
James Stewart
Little Feat
Victor Borge
Linda Schreiner
Henri Cartier Bresson
U2
The Band
Craig Gammelgaard
George Lucas
Mute Math
Charlie Chaplin
Francis Schaeffer
Steely Dan
Claude Monet
Phillip Glass
Magic Johnson
Joni Mitchell
Dustin Hoffman
The Get Up Kids
Ricky Skaggs
Chuck Swindoll
Sidney Poitier
Gene Kelly
Jimmy Smith
The Marx Brothers
Dick Van Dyke
Prince
Peter Sellars
Collective Soul
Kurt Warner
John Coltrane
Robert Duvall
David Wilkerson
Flatt & Scruggs
Steve Norde
Joyce Hassing
Martin Luther King
The Polyphonic Spree
Frank Lloyd Wright
Kingfish
Tom Petty
Jackson Pollock
Corrine Bailey Rae
Led Zeppelin
B.B. King
Yes
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Jellyfish
Mitchell Froom
Ernie Hanson
Jon Brion
Corrie Ten Boom
The Who
Alexander Nicolayevich Scriabin
Stevie Wonder
Mark Swenson
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Bill Cosby
Ornette Coleman
Elia Kazan
Dave Cavanaugh
The Rolling Stones
Dr John
Eve Curie
Hanz Ives
Tortoise
Old & In The Way
Coldplay
Simon & Garfunkle
Alfie Silas
Rod Steiger
Frank Capra
Roger Staubach
Lynn Bumatay
Holland Davis
Jars Of Clay
Nichole Nordeman
John Schreiner
Richie Furay
Scott Joplin
AC Green
Ingmar Bergman
Switchfoot
Joel Hodgson
Mike Nelson
Paul Colman
The Cars
Mark Cullen
Bruce Hornsby
Wendy & Lisa
Fyodor Dosteovsky
Bobby & The Midnites
Vincent Van Gogh
Roy Buchanan
John Ford
Sheryl Crow
Andrew Ford
Bonnie Raitt
Benmont Tench
Christopher Guest
Stomp
Bob Marley
Peter Gabriel
Bill Batstone
Nicky Hopkins
Federico Fellini
Kronos Quartet
Abraham Lincoln
Little Feat
Paul Cezanne
Jerry West
Earth Wind & Fire
Piotr IlyitchTchaikovsky
David Bowie
Walt Disney
The Band
Phil Madeira
David Owens
The Other Ones
Sting
John Wayne
Kansas
Weather Report
The Disco Bisquits
Cindy Morgan
Ed Nilsen
The Allman Brothers
Henry David Thoreau
Foo Fighters
John Scofield
Trey Anastasio
The Corzines
Jeff Jones
The Beach Boys
Edvard Munch
Supertramp
Derek Fisher
George Martin
Jonatha Brooke
Rudyard Kipling
Norm & Gina Stockton
Claude Debussy
Neil Finn
Ella Fitzgerald
Turtle Island Quartet
Emmylou Harris
Geoffrey Emerick
David Crowder
Kenny Hall
Georges Seurat
Billy Wilder
Bedrich Smetana
Zero 7
The Dave Matthews Band
Mike Garson
Keith Felch
Reverend Gary Davis
Beck
Neil Young
Edward Hopper
Bruce Springsteen
Kobe Bryant
Alfred Hitchcock
Blind Willie Johnson
Brian Swerdfeger
Don Henley
Howlin Wolf
Charlie Chaplin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
John Scofield
Ansel Adams
Chuck Berry
Woody Allen
The Yellowjackets
Keith Green
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Ollabelle
Joe Sample
Brian Vander Ark
Missing Persons
John Steinbeck
Coldplay
Buddy Guy
Rory Noland
The Plimsouls
Nic Harcourt
Camille Pissarro
Claudette Colbert
XTC
Frank Zappa
Shawn Colvin
Tom Landry
Lenny Kravitz
Buddy Holly
Jim Ladd
Squeeze
Chuck Leavell
Humphrey Bogart
Wassily Kandisnsky
Jimmy Reed
Kirk Franklin
Eva Cassidy
Jack White
Carl Orff
Greg Holmes
Wayne Shorter
Janis Joplin
Fallborn
Billy Graham