Jerron Paxton
Often when I film sessions at a festival, I come away with more than I do from most live shows I manage to catch. There’s something about a musician standing ...
Luther Russell
At Kilkenny Roots 2025, Luther Russell recorded two covers for The Influences: Dylan’s It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry and Hendrix’s Drifting. Two songs ...
Erin Rae
There wasn’t much time when The Deep Dark Woods and Erin Rae made a pit stop on their tour in my hometown. But, we managed to film a beautiful duet ...
Tamara van Esch
Dutch musician Tamara van Esch writes songs the way you notice something small and then can’t stop thinking about it. The Utrecht-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist moves through indie-folk that calls ...
Solo
Sometimes things are too special not to film. As you might remember; In 2025, The Influences launched a special project Solo, by other people. A musical tribute to Michiel Flamman. ...
Malin Pettersen
Malin Pettersen has been busy. The past few years have brought a steady stream of releases – each one finding its own shape without feeling hurried. Wildflower, her latest album, ...
Sessions, TakeRoot festival, USA
Kyshona
Sometimes it takes a little while before a session gets published, and trust me, it has nothing to do with how enthusiastic I am about it. Usually it’s logistics, waiting ...
Caleb Caudle
“Guy Clark and John Prine speak a language that I speak. It’s full of details and empathy. I chose my song Sweet Critters because it’s both of those things. When covering a ...
The Northern Belle
Stine Andreassen is one of those singers who will leave a smile on your face, even if you were in a terrible mood before. Trust me. Or don’t, and watch ...
Sessions, TakeRoot festival, USA
Joachim Cooder
After almost 18 years of this project, I can almost always feel it when a recording is going to be interesting. And when Joachim Cooder and his Italian guitarist Adriano ...
Norma
Halden is a small city in the southeastern corner of Norway, right on the Swedish border. It has a river, a fortress, and apparently, one of the most quietly infectious ...
Bertolf & Nomden
Bertolf Lentink and Diederik Nomden met at a Paul McCartney concert in 2003. Since then, they recorded Bertolf’s first demo’s, Nomden played in Bertolf’s band and together they toured with ...
Ole Kirkeng
If you have seen any of the earlier videos we filmed with Norwegian songwriter Ole Kirkeng, you will not be surprised we met up again to film some more. In ...
Italy, Sessions, TakeRoot festival
Adriano Viterbini
It took about a song and a half during Joachim Cooder’s sound check in Utrecht for me to notice, as I was setting up my gear to film his show ...
Signe Marie Rustad
It had been a long, inspiring and physically taxing day at Gamlebyen Loft in Oslo, near the end of The Influences’ visit to Norway, and there was just one last ...
Basciville
When Susan O’Neill is singing a couple of feet away, it’s pretty hard to notice anything else really. But even so, I remember being extremely impressed by her band, by ...
Diederik Nomden
Diederik Nomden is one of those musicians every other musician respects. Dedicated to his craft, fluent on multiple instruments, a brilliant member for any band (like Daryll-Ann, Johan, Ellen ten ...
Peter Doran
Sometimes all it takes is one song. Whether it is a melody, arrangement, lyrics or a voice. Or in the case of Peter Doran’s Clockwork (off his sixth album All ...
Jonas Alaska
His self-titled debut landed him three Spellemann Award nominations – Norway’s version of the Grammys, essentially – and since then Jonas Alaska has released six more albums that people keep ...
Himmelskip
They call it “cow-jazz.” Instrumental country by jazz musicians. Pedal steel guitar over dub rhythms. The sound of transcontinental railroads crossing fjords. Whatever you call it, Himmelskip’s music shouldn’t work ...
John Smith
Twenty years in, and John Smith still carries himself like someone who has something to prove. Not to anyone or anything other than to the songs themselves. The British singer, ...
Sessions, TakeRoot festival, USA
Emily Scott Robinson
A week and a half ago, on Saturday November 1st, I once again made the trip North to the TakeRoot festival in Groningen, to film sessions with musicians on the ...
George Boomsma
About a year ago already, I had a brilliant day in De Groeverij – a small record store in Houten, where four musicians recorded a session. The first was Katherine ...
Joshua Burnside
Life is funny sometimes. When I was planning the sessions at Kilkenny Roots, I reached out and asked if Joshua Burnside would be able to make his way south from ...
Keenan O’Meara
Sometimes the best moments happen when the crowd hasn’t arrived yet. The day Keenan O’Meara walked onto the stage at Amsterdam’s Paradiso for soundcheck, the historic venue was empty. The ...
News, Sessions, The Netherlands
Solo, by other people
The Influences is launching a special project: a musical tribute to Michiel Flamman, better known as Solo. In response to his serious illness, the idea arose to support him through ...
AWKWARD i & la loye
I’ve said it before: there are some musicians I will never stop filming, as long as they’ll have me. Actually, there’s quite a few. One of them is The Influences ...
Silver Lining
There’s something special about filming a session in a new city for the first time. Oslo did not disappoint for one minute. On the third day of filming in late ...
Todd Day Wait
Todd Day Wait walked into my setup with his guitar and played three songs that reminded me why I film these sessions. The Missouri-born musician has made his way from ...
Canada, Nashville, Sessions, USA
The Deep Dark Woods & Erin Rae
When certain artists I admire are coming through my area, there’s no way I’m missing the chance to film them if I can make time. We had planned to shoot ...
Junior Brother
Kerry-born musician Ronan Kealy has carved out a distinctive space in Irish music as Junior Brother, with his blend of traditional folk sensibilities and contemporary songwriting. Known for his intricate ...