Longest absences

Artists who came back after a year or more away. The bar is the gap; ticks are the artist's other shows. Top 100 of 1607.

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1 Amen Dunes 6 years

2 Ray Anderson, Aleta Heyes, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway 6 years

2 Bahamadia 6 years

2 Amir Bresler 6 years

5 Khun Narin 6 years

6 Michael Hurley 6 years

7 Men Without Hats 6 years

8 Sufjan Stevens 6 years

9 Seu Jorge 5 years

10 Phil Ochs 5 years

11 Nancy Jacobs and her Sisters 5 years

12 Shakey Graves 5 years

13 Angie Stone 5 years

14 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 5 years

14 Lil' Rascals Brass Band 5 years

16 Daniel Lanois 5 years

16 Coleman Hawkins 5 years

18 Fiona Apple 5 years

18 Kat Edmonson 5 years

20 Mallu Magalhães 5 years

21 Dennis Wilson 5 years

22 Donnie & Joe Emerson 5 years

23 100% Guinée Forestière 5 years

24 The Feelies 5 years

24 Muddy Waters 5 years

24 Johnny Dyani 5 years

27 Frank Sinatra 5 years

28 Clarence Ashley, Clint Howard, Fred Price, Jean Ritchie 5 years

29 Roy Campbell Pyramid Trio 5 years

30 Jon Brion 5 years

31 Bukka White 5 years

32 AJJ 5 years

32 Sonny Sharrock 5 years

34 Yin Yin 5 years

35 King Sunny Ade 5 years

36 Mavis Staples 5 years

36 Kahil El Zabar, Ritual Trio 5 years

36 Sampa the Great 5 years

39 Sophie Barker 5 years

40 Ambrose Akinmusire 5 years

41 Lee Morgan 5 years

41 The Sound And Space Ensembles 5 years

43 The Westerlies 5 years

44 Nduduzo Makhathini 5 years

45 Leena Conquest, Lewis Barnes 5 years

46 Arto Lindsay 5 years

47 Aura 5 years

47 Courtney Barnett 5 years

49 Damu The Fudgemunk 5 years

49 Kurt Vile 5 years

51 Gregory Isaacs 5 years

52 Grace Jones 5 years

53 clipping. 5 years

54 JAŸ-Z 5 years

54 Sean Ono Lennon 5 years

56 The Style Council 5 years

57 Supreme Jubilees 5 years

58 Bill Evans 5 years

58 Heshoo Beshoo Group 5 years

58 Mick Harvey 5 years

61 Super Furry Animals 5 years

62 The Clientele 5 years

62 Newcleus 5 years

64 Jack McDuff 5 years

64 Move D 5 years

64 Kahil El'Zabar 5 years

64 Fatback Band 5 years

68 Aphex Twin 5 years

69 OK Go 5 years

70 Broadcast 5 years

71 Sons Of Kemet 5 years

72 Zero 7 4 years

73 Chick Corea 4 years

74 Foster The People 4 years

75 Handsome Boy Modeling School 4 years

75 Generation X 4 years

77 Marcus Gilmore 4 years

77 Dungen 4 years

77 The Aluminum Group 4 years

77 Rita Marley 4 years

77 Richard Thompson 4 years

82 Elvis Costello 4 years

82 Albert Hammond 4 years

84 Almon Memela 4 years

84 Rev Harvey Gates 4 years

86 Beaver Harris, Dave Burrell 4 years

86 Opez 4 years

88 24 Carat Black 4 years

89 Fats Waller 4 years

90 Gloria Jones 4 years

90 L'Trimm 4 years

90 Andrew D'Angelo 4 years

93 Harold Budd 4 years

94 Blanket Music 4 years

94 Eric Dolphy 4 years

96 Junior Murvin 4 years

97 Allah-Las 4 years

97 The Housemartins 4 years

99 Stevie Nicks 4 years

100 Widespread Panic 4 years

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101 The Avalanches 4 years